1st Edition
Diplomatic Style and Foreign Policy A Case Study of South Korea
By Jeffrey Robertson
Copyright 2016
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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The book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into a state’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on South Korea.
Diplomatic style attracts scant attention from scholars. It is dismissed as irrelevant in the context of diplomacy’s universalism; misconstrued as a component of foreign policy; alluded to perfunctorily amidst broader considerations of... Read more
Introduction: The problem of diplomatic style
1. Diplomacy and style
2. Defining diplomatic style
3. Ideal types and ideal diplomats
4. Four ideal types of diplomatic style
5. Accessing diplomatic style: A case study of South Korea
6. Diplomatic style: Narratives of South Korean diplomats
7. Diplomatic style: Narratives of the Seoul diplomatic corps
8. Analytical insight and South Korean diplomatic style
Conclusion: Diplomatic style as foreign policy insight
Biography
Jeffrey Robertson is Assistant Professor at Yonsei University, South Korea and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy (APCD), the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University (ANU).
