James R. Ball III is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies and Director of the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts at Texas A&M University, USA. He studies the performance of diplomacy, and is the author of Theater of State: A Dramaturgy of the United Nations (2020). Related work has been published in TDR, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, e-Misférica, and elsewhere.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Postdiplomatic Theatre, James R. Ball III (Texas A&M University, USA)1. (En)Acting the Republic: The 1916 Rising as a Spectacle of Self-Sacrifice for Ireland, Áine Josephine Tyrrell (Kings College London, UK) 2. An "Indian Princess," a King and a Queen, and a President: Diplomatic Performance and Indigenous Sovereignties at the 1939 Royal Visit, Christiana Molldrem Harkulich (Eastern Illinois University, USA) 3. The President’s Yellow Batakari: Performance and the Sartorial in Ghanaian Politics, David Afriyie Donkor (Texas A&M University, USA)4. Windrush Strikes Back: "Rivers of Blood," Performance, and Guerrilla Diplomacy, Mary Karen Dahl (Florida State University, USA)5. Organ Failure: Medicalized Torture During the Iraq War, Warren Kluber (Columbia University, USA)6. Viral Diplomacy: Music, Masks, and Maritime Borders Between China and the Philippines, Adam Kielman (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)7. The President Makes a Play: Putin and Erdogan’s Sporting Diplomacy, Sean Bartley (Northwestern State University, USA) and Jared Strange (University of Maryland, USA)8. Statecraft and Revolution: Remaking Bolivar for an Anti-Imperialist Transnational Alliance, Angela Marino (University of California, Berkeley, USA)Afterword: The Future of Dissensus: Performance Postdiplomatic Postdemocracy, Tony Perucci (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)List of ContributorsBibliographyIndex

James R. Ball III is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies and Director of the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts at Texas A&M University, USA. He studies the performance of diplomacy, and is the author of Theater of State: A Dramaturgy of the United Nations (2020). Related work has been published in TDR, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, e-Misférica, and elsewhere.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Postdiplomatic Theatre, James R. Ball III (Texas A&M University, USA)1. (En)Acting the Republic: The 1916 Rising as a Spectacle of Self-Sacrifice for Ireland, Áine Josephine Tyrrell (Kings College London, UK) 2. An "Indian Princess," a King and a Queen, and a President: Diplomatic Performance and Indigenous Sovereignties at the 1939 Royal Visit, Christiana Molldrem Harkulich (Eastern Illinois University, USA) 3. The President’s Yellow Batakari: Performance and the Sartorial in Ghanaian Politics, David Afriyie Donkor (Texas A&M University, USA)4. Windrush Strikes Back: "Rivers of Blood," Performance, and Guerrilla Diplomacy, Mary Karen Dahl (Florida State University, USA)5. Organ Failure: Medicalized Torture During the Iraq War, Warren Kluber (Columbia University, USA)6. Viral Diplomacy: Music, Masks, and Maritime Borders Between China and the Philippines, Adam Kielman (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)7. The President Makes a Play: Putin and Erdogan’s Sporting Diplomacy, Sean Bartley (Northwestern State University, USA) and Jared Strange (University of Maryland, USA)8. Statecraft and Revolution: Remaking Bolivar for an Anti-Imperialist Transnational Alliance, Angela Marino (University of California, Berkeley, USA)Afterword: The Future of Dissensus: Performance Postdiplomatic Postdemocracy, Tony Perucci (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)List of ContributorsBibliographyIndex

James R. Ball III is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies and Director of the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts at Texas A&M University, USA. He studies the performance of diplomacy, and is the author of Theater of State: A Dramaturgy of the United Nations (2020). Related work has been published in TDR, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, e-Misférica, and elsewhere.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Postdiplomatic Theatre, James R. Ball III (Texas A&M University, USA)1. (En)Acting the Republic: The 1916 Rising as a Spectacle of Self-Sacrifice for Ireland, Áine Josephine Tyrrell (Kings College London, UK) 2. An "Indian Princess," a King and a Queen, and a President: Diplomatic Performance and Indigenous Sovereignties at the 1939 Royal Visit, Christiana Molldrem Harkulich (Eastern Illinois University, USA) 3. The President’s Yellow Batakari: Performance and the Sartorial in Ghanaian Politics, David Afriyie Donkor (Texas A&M University, USA)4. Windrush Strikes Back: "Rivers of Blood," Performance, and Guerrilla Diplomacy, Mary Karen Dahl (Florida State University, USA)5. Organ Failure: Medicalized Torture During the Iraq War, Warren Kluber (Columbia University, USA)6. Viral Diplomacy: Music, Masks, and Maritime Borders Between China and the Philippines, Adam Kielman (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)7. The President Makes a Play: Putin and Erdogan’s Sporting Diplomacy, Sean Bartley (Northwestern State University, USA) and Jared Strange (University of Maryland, USA)8. Statecraft and Revolution: Remaking Bolivar for an Anti-Imperialist Transnational Alliance, Angela Marino (University of California, Berkeley, USA)Afterword: The Future of Dissensus: Performance Postdiplomatic Postdemocracy, Tony Perucci (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)List of ContributorsBibliographyIndex