HUSSEIN BANAI Doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Brown University and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for International Studies, MIT, USAROLAND BLEIKER Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, AustraliaNOÉ CORNAGO Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, SpainMAI'A K. DAVIS CROSS Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, USAANTHONY DEOS is a public relations professional currently based in Minneapolis, USAIVER B. NEUMANN Director of Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Professor in Russian Studies, Oslo University, NorwaySAM OKOTH OPONDO Doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USAGEOFFREY ALLEN PIGMAN Member of the Faculty in Political Economy at Bennington College, Vermont, USA. Visiting Fellow, Centre for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark, USAPAUL SHARP Professor and Head of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USAARNE STRAND was Centre Manager at the Cyprus Centre of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway, from 2007 to 2009DAVID JOSEPH WELLMAN Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Director of the Center for Interreligious Engagement at DePaul University in Chicago, USAGEOFFREY WISEMAN teaches International Relations at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA

• Introduction - Sustaining Global Hope: Sovereignty, Power and the Transformation of Diplomacy; C.M.Constantinou &  J.Der Derian PART A: RE-CONCEPTUALIZING DIPLOMACY The Promise of Sustainable Diplomacy: Refining the Praxis of Ecological Realism; D.J.Wellman Diplomacy and Public Imagination; H.Banai On Homo-diplomacy; C.M.Constantinou PART B: DIPLOMATIC CULTURES, EXCLUSIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS Perforated Sovereignties, Agonistic Pluralism and the Durability of (Para)diplomacy;  N.Cornago Decolonising Diplomacy: Reflections on African Estrangement and Exclusion; S.O.Opondo Sustainability and Transformation in Diplomatic Culture: The Case of Euro-Centrism; I.B.Neumann PART C: DIPLOMATIC ISSUES AND CASE STUDIES Sustainable Public Diplomacy: Communicating about Identity, Interests and Terrorism; A.Deos & G.A.Pigman Sustained Peacebuilding: The role of NGOs and Researchers; A.Strand Sustainable Diplomacy in the European Union; M.K.Davis Cross Engaging the Enemy: An Essential Norm for Sustainable US Diplomacy; G.Wiseman Towards a Sustainable Diplomacy in Divided Korea; R.Bleiker The US-Iranian conflict in Obama's New Era of Engagement: Smart Power or Sustainable Diplomacy?; P.Sharp