Diplomacy, Communication, and Peace: Selected Essays

This book is composed of interconnected essays which reflect on challenging new issues related to diplomacy, communication, and peace.

This book begins by drawing out some of the challenges for diplomacy that arise from modern theories of semantics and of strategic communication, as well as those posed by the need for secrecy, and by the activities of agents of influence. It then proceeds to examine important issues in contemporary diplomacy, including refugee diplomacy, humanitarian diploma...