GRASPING THE MENTAL WORLD OF DIPLOMACY IN THE LATE MODERN ERA: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Journal Title: Analele Universitatii Ovidius Constanta Seria Istorie - Year 2011, Vol 8, Issue 0
Abstract
In this article, I will elaborate a conceptual framework to analyse how the evolution of the diplomatic profession influenced the ideas and actions of diplomats in the late modern era. Starting from a critical overview of historical and social scientific literature on diplomacy, I will argue that if made suitable for historical research, the concepts of ‘international political culture’ and especially ‘diplomatic culture’ are very adequate methodological vehicles to tackle the issue. To support this argument, first I will identify the processes of democratization as the key driving forces behind social and cultural changes in the diplomatic profession during the early modern era. They indeed caused a significant turnabout in international political culture, which provoked what could be qualified as a crisis of diplomatic culture. International political and diplomatic culture are so-called “sponge words”, or words that “can soak up a variety of operational meanings but at some saturation point begin to leave a logical and functional mess behind”.1 To avoid this from happening, in the second and final paragraphs of this article I will clarify these concepts and increase their practicability for historical research.
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Michael AUWERS
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