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Issues, Institutions and Middle-Power Diplomacy: Action and Agendas in the Post-Cold War Era

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This chapter traces some elements in contemporary global change and then considers some subsequent ways in which the relationship between states, global change and diplomacy in the post-Cold War era needs to be examined. The chapter accepts the need to reconsider many of the traditional assumptions that have underwritten the evolution of international relations as an area of study in the twentieth century. The working assumptions are twofold: notwithstanding the passing of the Cold War, recent manifestations of global change provide structural constraints on traditional understandings of foreign policy and diplomacy that are greater than at any time since the evolution of the modern state system; but states are still the principal agents of foreign policy decision-making and innovative diplomacy.

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  1. University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Andrew F. Cooper (Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science)

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Higgott, R. (1997). Issues, Institutions and Middle-Power Diplomacy: Action and Agendas in the Post-Cold War Era. In: Cooper, A.F. (eds) Niche Diplomacy. Studies in Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25902-1_2

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