Diplomacy is no longer restricted to a single vocation nor implemented exclusively through interaction amongst official … representatives. In exploring the challenges that these transformations produce, this work surveys firstly, the genealogy of diplomacy … specific knowledge and skills. Secondly, using the lens of the sociology of professions, the development of diplomacy as a …

the wider Asia-Pacific to natural hazards renders it the world’s most disaster prone. Since the Indian Ocean earthquake … and tsunami in 2004, there have been three significant broad trends that have shaped humanitarian diplomacy, namely ASEAN …

nuanced conceptualization of diplomacy. In doing so, we seek to project a closer fit between scholarly definitions of the term … and how diplomacy is understood by practitioners. We contribute to the literature by proposing a more refined … understanding of the term, presented here as five distinct (though not mutually exclusive) ‘meanings’ of diplomacy: (1) The actors …