Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Jozef Bátora, Nik Hynek

   Pages 1-18

3. Social Scientific Conceptualizations of Diplomacy

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   Pages 19-45

4. Diplomacy as an Institution Embedded in Environments, Structures and Practices

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   Pages 46-65

5. Studying Liminality and Fringe Players in the Modern Diplomatic Order

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6. The Holy See: Global Borderless Sovereignty and Double-Hatted Diplomats

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   Pages 87-111

7. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Extraordinary Resilience Meets Chance

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   Pages 112-137

8. The European Union: Bending the Rules to Fit in

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   Pages 138-157

9. Conclusion — Liminality, Co-existing Diplomatic Orders and the “New” Diplomatic Heteronomy

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   Pages 158-178

10. Back Matter

    Pages 179-214

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This book analyzes ways how three fringe players of the modern diplomatic order - the Holy See, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and the EU – have been accommodated within that order, revealing that the modern diplomatic order is less state-centric than conventionally assumed and is instead better conceived of as a heteronomy.

• diplomacy
• Europe
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• european union politics

"This study of the nature and dynamics of the modern diplomatic order makes several surprising and interesting moves. Analytically by combining such strange bed-fellows as organization theory, oriented institutionalism and Eisenstadt's research program on comparative liminality, and empirically by focusing on three fringe players, a newcomer (the European Union) and two old enities (the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta). The result [provides] new insights into diplomacy as an institutionalized, composite order, the interdependence between continuity and change, as well as the role of institutions in political life." - Johan P. Olsen, University of Oslo, Norway

"This bringing of neo-institutional theory to diplomacy is long overdue, and is the more commendable for relying on case-studies of how hegemonic set-ups are contested. Yet another step in the rapid professionalisation of diplomacy studies." - Iver B. Neumann, London School of Economics, UK

• Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

  Jozef Bátora

• Metropolitan University and Charles University, Prague, Czech

  Nik Hynek

• Czech Republic Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

  Nik Hynek

Jozef Bátora is Associate Professor, Director and Jean Monnet Chair at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Nik Hynek is Associate Professor at the Metropolitan University Prague, Comenius University in Bratislava and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

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