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. With the rise of India, China and Brazil as well as of the global south, diplomacy's history looks different. Significant shifts have prompted scholars in the field to reconsider the historical sequences that are relevant to an understanding of what diplomacy is today, and where it may be heading. Increased mediazation of global politics and diplomacy has prompted an exponential growth in literature on public diplomacy.

This collection has been carefully structured so that each volume gives the reader an overview of the literature on a new area of development in the study of diplomacy:

Volume One: Diplomatic institutions

Volume Two: Diplomacy in a Multicultural World

Volume Three: The Pluralisation of Diplomacy - Changing Actors, Developing Arenas and New Issues

Volume Four: Public Diplomacy

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