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- Makes the case for a new type of diplomacy carried out jointly by governments and non-governmental actors
- Elaborates on a number of very successful cases not present in the literature, but well known in the policy circles
- Highlights important features of middle powers in a global context
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores a new way of doing diplomacy through the engagement with non-governmental organizations, here referred to as hybrid diplomacy. Today’s global politics is played out most successfully by the combined actions of different actors. A specific type of partnership is that between governments (namely Ministries of Foreign Affairs) and civil society organizations. While not the only type of global partnership at work, this is particularly effective in advancing new issues and promoting the norm changes that have been discussed at length in international relations and sociological literature.
The author has chosen Italy as a case study because of the country's prolonged deployment of such policy. Being a middle power, with a strong non-profit sector, and hosting the central node of catholic global network, Italy is well positioned to take advantage of this new diplomatic mode. Through presenting a new reading of the Italian contribution to international affairs, this book contributes to broadening the scholarship in foreign policy analysis and transnational activism.
Reviews
"Professor Marchetti’s book is an admirable dissection of the relationship between non-state actors (NSAs) and Italian foreign policy. The theoretical focus is the growing presence of non-state actors in international relations, and the hybrid quality of their relations with state actors. Specifically, and with particular reference to Italy, he emphasises that the relationship is not one-sided, but hybrid, with gains for both states, for which NSA act as force-multipliers, and for NSAs which receive greater access to policy-making. The argument that these relations are synergistic is a welcome corrective to the general assumption that these relations are antagonistic." (Neil MacFarlane, University of Oxford, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept of Political Science, LUISS, Roma, Italy
Raffaele Marchetti
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hybrid Diplomacy with NGOs
Book Subtitle: The Italian Formula
Authors: Raffaele Marchetti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86869-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86868-0Published: 10 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86869-7Published: 09 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 135
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Political Science, Human Rights, International Organization