02627cam a2200325 i 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020003000063020002700093035002200120040004200142050002200184100003400206245009900240260006500339300002500404490003600429504005100465520147900516650002401995650002702019650001602046650003402062650003402096830003702130942001202167952010702179999001502286on1139239749OCoLCta200131s2020 enka b 001 0 eng  a9780367897796 (hardcover) a0367897792 (hardcover) a(OCoLC)1139239749 aDLCbengerdacDLCdUKMGBdOCLCFdYDX00aJZ1305b.S73 20201 aStagnell, Alexander, d1987- 10aDiplomacy and ideology :bfrom the French Revolution to the digital age /cAlexander Stagnell. aAbingdon, Oxon :bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, c2020. aviii, 209 p. :bill.1 aRoutledge new diplomacy studies aIncludes bibliographical references and index. a"This innovative new book argues that diplomacy, which emerged out of the French Revolution, has become one of the central ideological state apparatuses of the modern democratic nation-state. The book is divided into four thematic parts. The first presents the central concepts and theoretical perspectives derived from the work of Slavoj Žižek, focusing on his understanding of politics, ideology, and the core of the conceptual apparatus of Lacanian psychoanalysis. There then follow three parts treating diplomacy as archi-politics, ultra-politics, and post-politics, respectively highlighting three eras of the modern history of diplomacy from the French Revolution until today. The first part takes on the question of the creation of the term 'diplomacy', which took place during the time of the French Revolution. The second part begins with the effects on diplomacy arising from the horrors of the two World Wars. Finally, the third part covers another major shift in Western diplomacy during the last century, the fall of the Soviet Union, and how this transformation shows itself in the field of Diplomacy Studies. The book argues that diplomacy's primary task is not to be understood as negotiating peace between warring parties, but rather to reproduce the myth of the state's unity by repressing its fundamental inconsistencies. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, political theory, philosophy, and International Relations"-- 4aDiplomacyxHistory. 4aDiplomacyxPhilosophy. 4aState, The. 4aWorld politicsy19th century. 4aWorld politicsy20th century. 0aRoutledge new diplomacy studies. 2lcccBK 00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oJZ1305 .S73 2020pPNLIB21061913r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK c2100d2100