Diplomatic style and foreign policy : a case study of South Korea
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Diplomatic style and foreign policy : a case study of South Korea
(Routledge new diplomacy studies)
Routledge, 2019, c2016
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: 2016
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into a state's foreign policy, with a specific focus on South Korea.
Diplomatic style attracts scant attention from scholars. It is dismissed as irrelevant in the context of diplomacy's universalism; misconstrued as a component of foreign policy; alluded to perfunctorily amidst broader considerations of foreign policy; or wholly absented from discussions in which it should comprise an important component. In contrast to these views, practitioners maintain a faith-like confidence in diplomatic style. They assume it plays an important role in providing analytical insight, giving them advantage over scholars in the analysis of foreign policy. This book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into foreign policy, using South Korea as a case study. It determines that style remains important to diplomatic practitioners, and provides analytical insight into a state's foreign policy by highlighting phenomena of policy relevance, which narrows the range of information an analyst must cover. The book demonstrates how South Korea's diplomatic style - which has a tendency towards emotionalism, and is affected by status, generational change, cosmopolitanism, and estrangement from international society - can be a guide to understanding South Korea's contemporary foreign policy.
This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, foreign policy, Asian politics, and International Relations in general.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The problem of diplomatic style
1. Diplomacy and style
2. Defining diplomatic style
3. Ideal types and ideal diplomats
4. Four ideal types of diplomatic style
5. Accessing diplomatic style: A case study of South Korea
6. Diplomatic style: Narratives of South Korean diplomats
7. Diplomatic style: Narratives of the Seoul diplomatic corps
8. Analytical insight and South Korean diplomatic style
Conclusion: Diplomatic style as foreign policy insight
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