Hand of the Prince: How Diplomacy Writes Subjects, Territory, Time, and Norms
By (Author) Pablo de Orellana
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
1st April 2025
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Constitution: government and the state
Military history: post-WW2 conflicts
327.2
Hardback
304
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
This book is dedicated to how diplomacy makes, develops, and trades in knowledge. It proposes an approach to examine how diplomatic knowledge production describes what diplomats see, how these descriptions develop, and whether they were convincing to one's own policymakers or even those of other actors. These descriptions are vital: actors can be inserted into global categories Communism or Terrorism that beget significant security, relational and policy consequences. Diplomacy and policy constitute the world we inhabit based on what policymakers made of descriptions, assessments, and analysis. Such is the power of knowing who we and the others are.
Pablo de Orellana is a Lecturer in International Relations at King's College, London