Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World

Christian Lequesne, Ph.D (1992), Sciences Po Paris, is Professor of Political Science at that university. He has published monographs, edited books and many articles on the EU and Diplomacy, including The Member States of the European Union (OUP, 2020).

“The book proposes a fresh perspective on the ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs) in the world, aiming towards contributing to the existing academic gap in the research field of contemporary diplomacy. [...] [It] offers a fresh holistic approach on MFAs around the world, giving a much-needed analysis on the current status of these institutions in the national polities, as well as on the international arena.”—Irina Grosu, in: Romanian Journal of European Affairs, December 2022, Vol. 22, No. 2: pp. 130-32.

• List of Contributors1 Ministries of Foreign Affairs: A Crucial Institution to be RevisitedChristian LequesnePart 1: Recruitment and Career2 The Social Origin of Career Diplomats in Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Still an Upper-Class Elite?Karla Gobo and Claudia Santos3 The Gendered Networking of DiplomatsBirgitta Niklasson4 Ethnic Diversity in the Recruitment of Diplomats: Why MFA s Take the Issue SeriouslyChristian Lequesne, Gabriel Castillo, Minda Holm, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, Halvard Leira, Kamna Tiwary and Reuben Wong5 The Making of a Diplomatic Elite in a Revolutionary State: Loyalty, Expertise and Representativeness in Iran’s Ministry of Foreign AffairsGuillaume BeaudPart 2: Diplomacy and Politics6 Expertise and Politics in Ministries of Foreign Affairs: The Politician-Diplomat NexusGeoffrey Wiseman7 The Impact of Leader-Centric Populism on Career Diplomats: Tests of Loyalty, Voice, and Exit in Ministries of Foreign AffairsAndrew F. Cooper8 The Impact of Globalisation and Neoliberal Structural Reforms on the Mexican Ministry of Foreign AffairsJorge A. Schiavon and Bruno FigueroaPart 3: New Policy Practices9 Implementing the EU’s Russia Sanctions: A Geoeconomic Test Case for French and German Ministries of Foreign AffairsKim B. Olsen10 Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Challenge of Science DiplomacyPierre-Bruno Ruffini11 Consular Diplomacy in the Era of Growing MobilityJan Melissen12 Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Lessons from Denmark’s TechPlomacy InitiativeCasper Klynge, Mikael Ekman and Nikolaj Juncher Waedegaard13 The Mediatisation of Ministries of Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy in the New Media EcologyIlan Manor and Rhys Crilley14 From Delhi to Dili: Facebook Diplomacy by Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the Asia-PacificDamien SpryPart 4: Researching and Theorising mfa s15 Approaching Ministries of Foreign Affairs through Ethnographic WorkIver B. Neumann16 Diplomacy in the Rearview Mirror: Implications of Face-to-Face Diplomacy Ritual Disruption for Ministries of Foreign AffairsMarcus Holmes17 Distributed Agency: Foreign Policy sans MFAJason Dittmer18 The Site of Foreign Policy: A Field Theory Account of Ministries of Foreign AffairsThierry BalzacqIndex