Diplomats as permanent representatives: The practical logics of the multilateral pecking order

International Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 543-561

  Pouliot, Vincent ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Centre for International Peace and Security Studies   (Canada)

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EID: 83055170094     PISSN: 00207020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002070201106600302     Document Type: Article

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2. See the introduction to this issue of International Journal on categories of practice versus analysis. To locate my object in terms of the distinctions drawn in the framing piece, my focus is on territorial representation as opposed to, first, governing, and, second, nonterritorial forms of authority.
3. See, respectively, Harold Nicolson, Diplomacy, 3rd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963), 43;
4. Sir Ernest Satow, edited by Lord Gore-Booth, Satow's Guide to Diplomatic Practice, 5th edition (London: Longman, 1979), 3;
5. Henry A. Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problem of Peace 1812-1822 (Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1973), 2;
6. and Dean Acheson quoted in Paul Sharp, Diplomatic Theory of International Relations (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 3.
7. Iver B. Neumann, At Home with the Diplomats: An Ethnography of Diplomacy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011). See also Ole Jacob Sending's comparison in this issue between diplomatic culture and humanitarian practices.
8. See Vincent Pouliot, "The logic of practicality: A theory of practice of security communities," International Organization 62, no. 2(2008):257-88;
9. Vincent Pouliot, International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010) ;
10. and Emanuel Adler and Vincent Pouliot, "International practices," International Theory 3, no. 1(2011):1-36.
11. Kathleen Angers, Intégration européenne et pratique diplomatique. L'expérience autrichienne (1987-2009), master's thesis, Université de Montréal, 2010.
12. Interviews with NATO officials and representatives were conducted by the author in Brussels in April 2006 and in June 2010.
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14. Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-face Behavior (New York: Random House, 1967), 33-34.
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16. Angers, Intégration européenne, 59. On socialization and permanent representatives
17. see Jeffrey Lewis, "The Janus face of Brussels: Socialization and everyday decision making in the European Union," International Organization 59, no. 4(fall 2005):937):937-71. (Pubitemid 43388717)
18. Yves Buchet de Neuilly, "Devenir diplomate multilateral: Le sens pratique des calculs approprtes," Cultures et conflits 79(2009):89-90.
19. Buchet de Neuilly, "Devenir diplomate multilateral," 78.
20. Ambrosetti, Normes et rivalités, 31.
21. Rebecca Adler-Nissen, "Late sovereign diplomacy," The Hague Journal of Diplomacy no. 4(2009):130.
22. Angers, Intégration européenne, 65.
23. Mai'a K. Davis Cross, The European Diplomatic Corps: Diplomats and International Cooperation from Westphalia to Maastricht (New York: Palgrave, 2007), 22. Cross uses the "tightness" of the community of diplomats as the main determinant of agency and autonomy: "If the epistemic community of diplomats is strong, the diplomats are more likely to (1) exercise collective agency to reach a cooperative outcome, (2) change their preferences during the negotiation, (3) and successfully persuade their statesmen to support their collective decision. "
24. Buchet de Neuilly, "Devenir diplomate," 81, 91.
25. Jennifer Mitzen, "Reading Habermas in anarchy: Multilateral diplomacy and global public spheres," American Political Science Review 99, no. 3(2005):401-17. For a different take, see Hurd in this issue. (Pubitemid 41322625)
26. Erving Goffman, "Symbols of class status," British Journal of Sociology 2, no. 4(1951):294.
27. Goffman, Interaction Order, 43.
28. Vincent Pouliot, "Multilateralism as an end in itself," International Studies Perspectives 12, no. 1(2011):18-26.
29. Buchet de Neuilly, "Devenir diplomate";
30. and Rebecca Adler-Nissen, "Sovereignty," paper prepared for the workshop "Bourdieu in international relations," Copenhagen, December 2010.