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Yesterday, the editors of the #emdiplomacy handbook, @dorotheegoetze and @LenaOetzel , were invited to the Global #Diplomacy Network seminar to talk about the #BigPinkBook with experts in the field of (hcommons.social)

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Yesterday, the editors of the #emdiplomacy handbook, @dorotheegoetze@scholar.social and @LenaOetzel@historians.social , were invited to the Global #Diplomacy Network seminar to talk about the #BigPinkBook with experts in the field of Global #NewDiplomaticHistory:

https://www.su.se/english/research/research-groups/global-diplomacy-network

It was a great dialogue between different approaches in the field of diplomatic #history, and a rewarding discussion which settled around three main aspects:

How to define diplomacy?
The ratio between actors and structures in the historiography on #emdiplomacy as represented in the handbook?
The relationship of European and Global #emdiplomacy?
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[–] emdiplomacy@hcommons.social 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When writing the introduction chapter of the #emdiplomacy handbook, we discovered that, although #NewDiplomaticHistory is a vibrant field, there is a reluctance to define #earlyModern #diplomacy in most works.

Instead, #emdiplomacy is described by focusing on certain aspects such as diplomatic actors, practices or issues #emdiplomats dealt with.

The @emdiplomacy@hcommons.social handbook added a fourth aspect: spaces of diplomacy. This is also reflected in the structure of the handbook which contents three major parts on spaces, actors and practices.

However, the editors did not duck away and suggested the following definition:

“Early modern (European) #diplomacy is a way of channelling and organising cultural, political and economic contacts between different cultural and/or political actors and entities that can, but need not be, stately in the context of foreign relations.”
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[–] emdiplomacy@hcommons.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

THE key feature of #NewDiplomaticHistory is the emphasis of the #diplomatic actor that distinguishes it from traditional approaches in diplomatic #history which have highlighted surrounding structures.

This is also true for more structural perspectives such as the description of the development of #emdiplomacy in different parts of #Europe . Even here the authors have internalised the actor-centred approach.

As the actor-centred approach of new diplomatic history favours microstudies, there is a much greater risk that the field of #NewDiplomaticHistory will remain stuck at the micro level, failing to lift their results to a macro level. The #emdiplomacy handbook attempts to counteract this risk by bringing together the different strands of research on #earlyModern #diplomacy.
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#histodons

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[–] emdiplomacy@hcommons.social 1 points 2 months ago

The #emdiplomacy handbook deliberately focuses on earlyModern European #diplomacy. It does however not see European diplomacy as a framework for global diplomacy. Therefore, comparisons should not be restricted to the dichotomy of European and global but consider European diplomacy as one form of diplomacy among others.
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#histodons #NewDiplomaticHistory #history

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