Diplomatic training

Name: Diplomatic training
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ISBN: 9781526188762

Histories, geographies, politics

Ruth Craggs, Jonathan Harris, Fiona McConnell

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Manchester University Press
20 May 2026

History: specific events & topics; Diplomacy

Series: Key Studies in Diplomacy

Despite the essential role diplomatic training plays in the everyday workings of international relations, international law and in the various multilateral organisations, this practice has received little critical attention in the humanities, social and political sciences. Bringing together detailed accounts of the histories, development and contemporary practices of diplomatic training with insights from key practitioners, this edited collection places training centrally within our understanding of international relations. It argues that diplomatic training both reflects and reproduces hegemonic power relations, whilst at the same time offering opportunities to contest them, and imagine alternative futures. The book includes a substantive introduction, nine full-length chapters from a range of disciplinary and regional perspectives drawing on archival research, oral history, interviews, and ethnographic methods, and four 'interventions': reflection pieces from trainers and directors of training programmes. It offers a globe-spanning, interdisciplinary account of the politics of diplomatic training and appeals to both scholarly and practitioner audiences.

Edited by: Ruth Craggs, Jonathan Harris, Fiona McConnell
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 562g
ISBN: 9781526188762
ISBN 10: 1526188767
Series: Key Studies in Diplomacy
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 20 May 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Harris is Assistant Professor in Political Geography at Dublin City University. Ruth Craggs is Reader in Political and Historical Geography at King's College London. Fiona McConnell is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Catherine's College.

Reviews for Diplomatic training: Histories, geographies, politics

'With their broad and illuminating perspective, Ruth Craggs, Jonathan Harris and Fiona McConnell draw on legal, historical and political studies of the European experience to offer a fresh and global approach to the content, sites and power dynamics of diplomatic training. Bringing together specialists in the field and practitioners to discuss the approaches proposed in their remarkable introduction, they take the reader from the 1960s to the 2020s, from Africa to Latin America, via Iran and the Balkans. This pioneering book, which will be very useful for anyone involved in diplomatic academies and other training institutes, is also expected to become a reference work for historians.' Laurence Badel, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne -- .