Diplomacy without Diplomats?

Kennan, George F.

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“…26 Another was the rigid character and conduct of the "Jeffersonian" professor, William E. Dodd, whom President Franklin Roosevelt sent as U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany. 27 The two ways of representation-making a point and being the point itself-may or may not be mutually supportive. In Franklin's case they were.…”

Section: Diplomatic Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sovereignty, Diplomacy and Democracy: The Changing Character of “International Representation” — From State to Self

Henrikson¹

2015

Sravn. polit.

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Section: Diplomatic Representationmentioning

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Sovereignty, Diplomacy and Democracy: The Changing Character of “International Representation” — From State to Self

Henrikson¹

2015

Sravn. polit.

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“…Agency leaders also have to navigate complex intra‐ and interagency relationships that differ from corporate negotiations (Kaufman ; National Commission on the Public Service ). At many embassies, for example, the State Department contingent is only 30% of the entire embassy community, with the remaining 70% coming from other agencies (Kennan ); this requires that ambassadors understand both the prerogatives and the limits of their chief of mission authority over embassy constituents.…”

Section: Ambassadorial Advantages For a New Approach To Appointments mentioning

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Striped Pants versus Fat Cats: Ambassadorial Performance of Career Diplomats and Political Appointees

Haglund

2015

Pres Stud Q

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The growing bureaucratic performance literature focuses on differences in programs or agencies led by either careerists or political appointees; yet this literature still struggles to measure and then compare performance across agencies. This article examines ambassadorial performance to provide new measures of individual-and organization-level performance. Using a new data set of embassy inspection reports by the State Department's inspector general, I find that the traditional dichotomy of careerists versus appointees explains some performance differences even as some key individual-level characteristics that are expected to affect performance are not influential. These findings have important implications for presidents and agencies in their approaches to leadership selection and performance evaluation.

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“…Current transformations in diplomacy may be examined not only through its evolving practices and institutions but also through the prism of the radical changes affecting diplomacy as a profession (cfr. Rossow 1962;Harr 1969;Kennan 1997;Sharp 1997;Neumann 2005;Bazouni 2005;Niedner Kalthoff 2005. Diplomacy is no longer restricted to a single vocation; aspects of it can be found in different occupational positions.…”

Section: Introduction: Understanding Diplomatic Transformation Througmentioning

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Transprofessional Diplomacy

Constantinou

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McConnell

2016

BRP Dipl Foreign Policy

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Diplomacy is no longer restricted to a single vocation nor implemented exclusively through interaction amongst official representatives. In exploring the challenges that these transformations produce, this work surveys firstly, thegenealogyof diplomacy as a profession, tracing how it changed from a civic duty into a vocation requiring training and the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills. Secondly, using the lens of thesociologyof professions, the development of diplomacy as a distinctive profession is examined, including its importance for the consolidation of the power of modern nation-states. Thirdly, it examines how the landscape of professional diplomacy is being diversified and enriched by a series of non-state actors, with their corresponding professionals, transforming thephenomenologyof contemporary diplomacy. Rather than seeing this pluralization of diplomatic actors in negative terms as thedeprofessionalization of diplomacy, we frame these trends astransprofessionalization, that is, as a productive development that reflects the expanded diplomatic space and the intensified pace of global interconnections and networks, and the new possibilities they unleash for practising diplomacy in different milieus.

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Diplomacy without Diplomats?

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Sovereignty, Diplomacy and Democracy: The Changing Character of “International Representation” — From State to Self

Sovereignty, Diplomacy and Democracy: The Changing Character of “International Representation” — From State to Self

Striped Pants versus Fat Cats: Ambassadorial Performance of Career Diplomats and Political Appointees

Transprofessional Diplomacy

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