Dittmer, Jason;
(2022)
Distributed Agency: Foreign policy sans MFA.
In: Lequesne, Christian, (ed.)
Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World: Actors of State Diplomacy.
(pp. 369-377).
Koninklijke Brill N.V.: Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Abstract
This short provocation argues for a diplomacy studies that is less focused on the rationality of states, with the ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) as an imagined black box in which calculation occurs, and more on the idea of ‘external’ agency as the emergent effect from a range of elements within and without the state. To illustrate this idea, the essay sketches out an example of foreign policy made in the absence of an MFA entirely: Gibraltar’s 2019 intervention in the Grace 1 controversy.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Distributed Agency: Foreign policy sans MFA |
| ISBN-13: | 978-90-04-50587-2 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1163/9789004505889_018 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004505889_018 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Jason Dittmer 2022. Original content in this chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149057 |
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