American diplomacy [electronic resource] / edited by Paul Sharp and Geoffrey Wiseman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharp, Paul, 1953-

Wiseman, Geoffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic and consular service, American.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These essays examine questions arising from the Obama administration's efforts to revive American diplomacy and its response to the ways in which diplomacy itself is being transformed. The essays examine these questions from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives provided by scholars and diplomats from around the world and within the United States. A common focus of the collection is on how diplomacy's contribution to the effectiveness of foreign policy has been undervalued in the United States by governments, the foreign policy community, and academics. Together, the essays seek to raise awareness of American diplomacy conducted at all levels of government and society. They consider its future prospects in the context of America's economic difficulties and the anticipated further erosion of its international position. And they ask how American diplomacy may be strengthened in the interests of international peace and security, whether under a second term Obama administration or the leadership of a new president.

Contents:

Introduction

Distinctive characteristics of American diplomacy / Geoffrey Wiseman

The distinction between foreign policy and diplomacy in American international thought and practice / David Clinton

US diplomacy and diplomats: a Chinese view / Chen Zhimin

European responses to US diplomacy / Michael Smith

Transformational diplomacy: US tactics for change in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2004-2006 / Karin A. Esposito and S. Alaeddin Vahid Gharavi

Course corrections: the Obama administration at the United Nations / David Bosco

American public diplomacy: enduring characteristics, elusive transformation / Bruce Gregory

Quantum diplomacy, German-US relations and the psychogeography of Berlin / James Der Derian

Obama, Clinton and the diplomacy of change / Paul Sharp

The incapacitation of US statecraft and diplomacy / Chas W. Freeman Jr

The traditions and travails of career diplomacy in the United States / Thomas Hanson

Digital diplomacy and US foreign policy / Alec Ross

Conclusion.

Notes:

"Originally published as Volume 6, Nos. 3-4 (2011) in Brill's journal The Hague journal of diplomacy"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-47061-6

9786613470614

90-04-21414-3

OCLC:

775301932

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004214149 DOI