{"product_id":"at-home-with-the-diplomats-9780801477652","title":"At Home with the Diplomats","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a vast gulf between the public face of diplomacy and the opinions and actions that take place behind embassy doors. In At Home with the Diplomats, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to the inner workings of a foreign ministry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e... Iver Neumann presents a bold new approach: the study of diplomacy as anthropology.... Neumann is well suited to parsing the grammar of this shared culture as a participant-observer of the diplomatic tribe.... By retrieving what this world looks and feels like, Neumann's work poses a series of questions that point the way to an exciting agenda for further research.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nigel Gould-Davis * International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this bookNeumannthe recently appointed Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Sciencetakes on the ambitious task of providing a 'historically informed ethnography of diplomacyin which I ask what diplomats do and how they come to do it'. Based primarily on his experience at the Norwegian MFAand deploying an anthropologist’s perspectivethe result is a readableslim volume that is informativeintriguing and thought-provoking.... \u003ci\u003eAt Home with the Diplomats\u003c\/i\u003e is in many ways a ground-breaking book.... And it is fun at the same time. If that is not a sin, then this is a book worth reading.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeremy Cresswell * The Hague Journal of Diplomacy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Who Are They and Where Do They Come From?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Abroad: The Emergence of Permanent Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. At Home: The Emergence of the Foreign Ministry\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Bureaucratic Mode of Knowledge Production\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. To Be a Diplomat\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Diplomats Gendered and Classed\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Diplomatic Knowledge\u003ci\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405155803479,"sku":"9780801477652","price":20.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801477652.jpg?v=1730488912","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/at-home-with-the-diplomats-9780801477652","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}