Following on from where 2004′s widely acclaimed three-volume SAGE collection, Diplomacy (ed. Jonsson & Langhorne) left off, this new four-volume major work takes a new look at a subject which has matured and developed significantly over the past decade.

VOLUME ONE: DIPLOMATIC INSTITUTIONS PART ONE: BEGINNINGS The Primitive ′Diplomats′ - Ragnar Numelin The Roman Rolls of Edward II as a Source of Administrative and Diplomatic Practice in the Early 14th Century - Barbara Bombi Prudence and Experience - Daniela Frigo Ambassadors and Political Culture in Early Modern Italy Early Modern Diplomatic Ceremonial - William Roosen A Systems Approach The Failed Gift - Jan Hennings Ceremony and Gift-Giving in Anglo-Russian Relations, 1662-1664 PART TWO: FROM INSTITUTIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS Judges, Merchants and Envoys - Halvard Leira and Iver B. Neumann The Growth and Development of the Consular Institution The French Political Academy, 1712 - H.M.A Keens-Soper A School for Ambassadors The Concert of Europe - Richard Elrod A Fresh Look at an International System Introduction - Brian Hocking Foreign Ministries: Redefining the Gatekeeper Role Petticoat Diplomacy - Helen McCarthy The Admission of Women to the British Foreign Service Conclusion - Paul Sharp and Geoffrey Wiseman The Diplomatic Corps′ Role in Constituting International Society On the Origins of ′Parliamentary Diplomacy′ - Norbert Götz Scandinavian ′Bloc Politics′ and Delegation Policy in the League of Nations Eyes on the Prize - David Malone The Quest for Non-Permanent Seats on the United Nations Security Council Consensus Making in the United Nations Security Council - Niels Nagelhus Schia How Informal Processes may Enforce Inequality Between the Memberstates VOLUME TWO: DIPLOMACY IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD PART ONE: THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEGACY Euro-Centric Diplomacy - Iver B. Neumann Challenging but Manageable The Language of Kinship Diplomacy - Christopher Jones Passing on Political Information between Major Powers - Nicolas Drocourt The Key Role of Ambassadors between Byzantium and Some of Its Neighbours PART TWO: THE UNACKNOWLEDGED LEGACY A Neighbourless Empire? The Forgotten Diplomatic Tradition of Imperial China - Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson The Mongol Orders of Submission to European Powers, 1245-1255 - Eric Voegelin The Letters of Eljigidei, H leg and Abaqa - Denise Aigle Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? Another Look at the Function of Wampum in Iroquois-White Councils - Michael Foster Gender, Politics and Diplomacy - James Daybell Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England Diplomatic History as a Field for Cultural Analysis - Christian Windler Muslim-Christian Relations in Tunis, 1700-1840 A Case Study of the Construction of International Hierarchy - Edward Keene British Treaty-Making against the Slave Trade in the Early 19th Century PART THREE: THE LIVED-DOWN CHALLENGES Thomas Jefferson and American Foreign Policy - Robert Tucker and David Hendrickson Distinctive Characteristics of American Diplomacy - Geoffrey Wiseman ′The Reign of the Charlatans Is Over′ - Linda Frey and Marsha Frey The French Revolutionary Attack on Diplomatic Practice Soviet Diplomacy: G.V. Chicherin, Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs, 1918-1930 - Theodore Von Laue Mullah Zaeef and Taliban Diplomacy - Paul Sharp An English-School Approach VOLUME THREE: THE PLURALIZATION OF DIPLOMACY - CHANGING ACTORS, DEVELOPING ARENAS AND NEW ISSUES PART ONE: THE ACTORS AND ARENAS Territorial Order and Collective-Identity Tensions in Confucian Asia - Alexander Woodside China, Vietnam, Korea The Return of the Standard of Civilization - David Fidler On Homo-Diplomacy - Costas Constantinou Reading Habermas in Anarchy - Jennifer Mitzen Multilateral Diplomacy and Global Public Spheres The New Diplomacy - John Robert Kelley Evolution of a Revolution On the Normalization of Sub-State Diplomacy - Noé Cornago Foreign Policy According to Freud - William Davidson and Joseph Montville European Union Diplomacy - Rebecca Adler-Nissen Late Sovereign Diplomacy Grab a Phaser, Ambassador - Iver B. Neumann Diplomacy in Star Trek PART TWO: ISSUES The New Media and Transparency - Steven Livingston What Are the Consequences for Diplomacy? Media Impact on Diplomatic Practice - Christina Archetti An Evolutionary Model of Change Navigating the Global Health Terrain - David Fidler Mapping Global Health Diplomacy Diplomacy and the Polio Immunization Boycott In Northern Nigeria - Judith Kaufmann and Harley Feldbaum Summit Theatre - Carl Death Exemplary Governmentality and Environmental Diplomacy in Johannesburg and Copenhagen Change in Consular Assistance and the Emergence of Consular Diplomacy - Maaike Okano-Heijmans VOLUME FOUR: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES Public Relations and Public Diplomacy - Benno Signitzer and Timothy Coombs Conceptual Convergences Branding Territory - Peter Van Ham Inside the Wonderful Worlds of Public Relations and Industrial Relations Theory Wielding Soft Power - Jan Melissen The New Public Diplomacy Advancing the New Public Diplomac - Kathy Fitzpatrick A Public-Relations Perspective Searching for a Theory of Public Diplomacy - Eytan Gilboa Moving from Monologue to Dialogue to Collaboration - Geoffrey Cowan and Amelia Arsenault The Three Layers of Public Diplomacy PART TWO: EMERGING ISSUES AND THE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY OF GREAT AND SMALL American Public Diplomacy - Bruce Gregory Enduring Characteristics, Elusive Transformation Public Diplomacy and the Rise of Chinese Soft Power - Yiwei Wang Public Diplomacy in Small and Medium-Sized States - Josef Bátora Norway and Canada Web 2.0 and Public Diplomacy - Hannes Richter Pigman Public Diplomacy, Place-Branding and Investment-Promotion in Ambiguous Sovereignty Situations - Geoffrey Allen The Cook Islands as a Best Practice Case Music for the Jilted Generation - Ali Fisher Open Source Public Diplomacy Consuls for Hire - Geoffrey Allen Pigman and Anthony Deos Private Actors, Public Diplomacy PART THREE: THE WAY FORWARD What Became of the New Public Diplomacy? Recent Developments in British, United States and Swedish Public Diplomacy Policy and Evaluation Methods - James Pamment Beyond the New Public Diplomacy - Jan Melissen