Why Studying State Foreign Services Remains a Research Priority. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lequesne, Christian
• Is Part Of: Diplomacy and statecraft. Volume 30:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 780
• Page End: 785
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Diplomacy -- Periodicals; World politics -- Periodicals; International relations -- Periodicals; 327
• DOI: 10.1080/09592296.2019.1673553
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0959-2296

Abstract

ABSTRACT: It is quite understandable that diplomatic studies devote a huge amount of research to new trends in diplomacy such as public diplomacy, cyber-diplomacy, and digital diplomacy. Research has therefore become more limited when states' foreign services and institutions are concerned. This contribution is a plea for not forgetting research perspectives on foreign ministries in the world. It insists on five good reasons to continue comparative work on what seems to be a 'classic' topic of diplomatic studies. The article is conceived as the introduction to a series of other contributions on the subject, all resulting from a round-table that took place at the ISA Congress 2017 in Baltimore.