Review: General: Critical Security Studies
| Date | 01 June 1998 |
| Author | Ronald J. Deibert |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300229 |
| Published date | 01 June 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
service,
one
must
consider
as
fortu- modern
foreign
service
officer.
nate
those
students
at
the
University
Some
of
these
are
generalizations
or
of
Westminster
who
have
attend
Sir
'facts
of
life'
which, for
instance
Peter
Marshall's course
of
lectures
remind
the
reader
that
diplomacy
is
on
which
this
excellent
book
is
never
unilateral,
that
'containing
based.
Earlier
'classics'
such
as
Nicol-
differences'
can
be
the
best policy
in
son's
Diplomacy
are
now
hopelessly
certain
circumstances,
and
that
out
of
date,
and
new,
authoritative
'confusion'
is
often
a
more
accurate
guidance
to
the
subject
was
badly
description
of
world
politics than
needed.
Positive
Diplomacy,
which
'conspiracy.'
Others
offer
sensible
draws
on
a
lifetime
of
diplomatic
advice
to
aspiring
diplomats
regard-
experience,
fills
the
gap
admirably.
ing
attitudes
and conduct.
The
book
deals first
with
the
Useful
documentary
annexes,
changing nature
of
diplomacy,
informative
footnotes,
and
a
select
emphasizing
new
issues
and
new
bibliography
strengthen the book.
technology
and continues
with
bal-
The
prose
is
elegant,
scholarship
is
anced
and
informative chapters
on
combined
with
common
sense,
and
the context
in
which
foreign policy there
are
flashes
of
wit. Positive
is
made
and
carried
out:
the
nature Diplomacy
can
be
warmly
recom-
of
contemporary international
soci-
mended
not
only
to
men
and
ety,
the
meaning
and
limits
of
sover-
women
entering
the
profession
(and
eignty,
and
the
development
of
a
those
already
in
it)
but
to
a
wider
world
economy.
As
would
be
readership
embracing
those
who
expected
from
the
author,
who
seek
a
better
understanding
of
the
served
with distinction
as
British
key
role
of
diplomacy
in
the
con-
ambassador
to
the
United
Nations
temporary world.
in Geneva
and
as
deputy
Common-
wealth
secretary-general,
interna-
Margaret
Doxey,
Trent
University
tional
institutions
receive
particular
attention
in
excellent
chapters
on
CRITICAL SECURITY
STUDIES
the
United
Nations and
'European Edited
by
Keith
Krause
and
architecture.'
Michael
Williams
Marshall
next
deals
with
process
Minneapolis:
University
of
Minnesota
in
practical
chapters
on
the
essential
Press,
1997,
xxiv,
379pp
components
of
foreign policy
mak-
ing, the
organization
of
a
diplomat-
Once
upon
a
time, the
security
ic
service,
and
the need
for
skills
in
studies
field
was
characterized
pri-
advocacy
and
drafting.
Finally,
he
marily
by
hard-nosed,
mostly
male
presents
ten
precepts
to
guide
the
theorists
with
narrow
concerns cen-
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