The State of the Art. The Way of the Future

Mori, Jennifer

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“…In contrast to the traditional focus of diplomatic history on international relations and foreign policy, the new diplomatic history zoomed in on the cultural aspects of diplomacy, including personal relations, translation, and inter‐cultural communication. It also highlighted the role of informal actors and intermediaries, such as translators, scribes, and secretaries, and the significance of non‐textual aspects of diplomatic relations, such as ceremonies, rituals, sound, gifts, and displays of hospitality and friendship (Amirell, 2022; Mori, 2019; Sowerby, 2016).…”

Section: New Histories Of International Law and Diplomacy In Southeas...mentioning

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Tools of imperialism or sources of international law? Treaties and diplomatic relations in early modern and colonial Southeast Asia

Amirell

2023

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The history of treaty‐making, diplomacy, and international law has traditionally been written from Eurocentric perspectives, but since the middle of the 20th century, Southeast Asia has attracted relatively much attention because of the region's importance for the 17th‐century Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius. More recently, however, the interest in Southeast Asia's role in the history of international law and diplomacy in the early modern period has become more oriented toward understanding the dynamics of international relations and cross‐cultural diplomacy in Southeast Asia itself, rather than focusing on the region's role in European legal and intellectual history. The prolific treaty‐making and other diplomatic activities of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) during the 17th and 18th centuries have been the object of several studies, highlighting how the company adopted Asian practices of statecraft and at times functioned as a traditional ruler, tributary or stranger‐king, rather than as an omnipotent colonial power. Moreover, several recent studies have expanded the study of diplomacy and treaty‐making in Southeast Asia to imperial powers other than the VOC and into the 19th century. With regard to the practice of treaty‐making during the colonial era, three main themes in the current state‐of‐the‐art are identified: 1) Southeast Asian and inter‐cultural perspectives on treaties and treaty‐making; 2) the question of mutual consent or coercion and violence in treaty‐making; and 3) discrepancies between Asian and European treaty texts and biases in printed and digitised compilations of treaties.

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Tools of imperialism or sources of international law? Treaties and diplomatic relations in early modern and colonial Southeast Asia

Amirell

2023

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New Diplomatic History and the Study of the Global Nineteenth Century

Amirell¹

2022

Global Nineteenth-Century Studies

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The cultural turn in diplomatic history and the rise of the field of new diplomatic history since the end of the twentieth century has not, to date, had a great impact on the study of the global nineteenth century. This article argues that bringing the methods and perspectives of new diplomatic history to bear on the study of the global nineteenth century is fruitful in at least five respects. First, it encourages multivocality by including informal diplomatic actors in the study of cross-cultural diplomacy and colonial encounters; second, it calls upon the historian to pay equal attention to the motives, perspectives, and worldviews of Europeans and non-Europeans; third, it pays attention to the conditions and circumstances, including violence, coercion, translation, place, ceremony, and gifts, of cross-cultural diplomacy and imperial expansion; fourth, it highlights the long-term character of imperial and diplomatic relations; and fifth, it broadens the range of available sources to include a wide range of textual and non-textual sources. In all of these respects, new diplomatic history can help historians of the global nineteenth century to overcome the traps of Eurocentrism and teleological and macrohistorical biases.

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The State of the Art. The Way of the Future

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Tools of imperialism or sources of international law? Treaties and diplomatic relations in early modern and colonial Southeast Asia

Tools of imperialism or sources of international law? Treaties and diplomatic relations in early modern and colonial Southeast Asia

New Diplomatic History and the Study of the Global Nineteenth Century

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