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Introduction Ole Jacob Sending, Vincent Pouliot and Iver B. Neumann Part I. Making of International Institutions: 1. International law and the politics of diplomacy Ian Hurd 2. Diplomacy, war, and world politics Tarak Barkawi 3. The practice of permanent representation to international organizations Vincent Pouliot Part II. Making International Cooperation: 4. From representation to governing: diplomacy and the constitution of international public power Jennifer Mitzen 5. Institutionalizing peace and reconciliation diplomacy: third-party reconciliation as systems maintenance Iver B. Neumann 6. Christian ethics, actors, and diplomacy: mediating universalist pretentions Cecelia Lynch Part III. Diplomacy as a Contested Terrain: 7. Diplomacy as economic consultancy Leonard Seabrooke 8. US military diplomacy in practice Captain Miriam Krieger, Lieutenant Commander Shannon L. C. Souma and Daniel H. Nexon 9. Diplomats and humanitarians in crisis governance Ole Jacob Sending Conclusion. Relationalism: why diplomats find international relations theory strange Rebecca Adler-Nissen.
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