At home with the diplomats : inside a European foreign ministry / Iver B. Neumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neumann, Iver B.

Series:

Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Expertise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic and consular service, European.

Diplomatic and consular service, Norwegian.

Diplomats--Europe.

Diplomats.

Diplomats--Norway.

Europe--Foreign relations.

Europe.

International relations.

Norway--Foreign relations.

Norway.

Neumann, Iver B.

Physical Description:

x, 216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Summary:

There 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. Neumann worked for several years at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he Had ah up-close view-of how diplomats conduct their business and how they perceive their own practices. In this book he shows us how diplomacy is conducted on a day-to-day basis. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : who are they and where do they come from?

Abroad : the emergence of permanent diplomacy

At home : the emergence of the foreign ministry

The bureaucratic mode of knowledge production

To be a diplomat

Diplomats gendered and classed

Conclusion : diplomatic knowledge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801449932

0801449936

9780801477652

0801477654

OCLC:

727704086