POLI 444 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cuban Missile Crisis, Post-Structuralism, Political Subjectivity
28 Sep 2014
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Statecraft how do you conduct foreign policy objectives. Foreign policy the construction of state objectives the substance of. Diplomacy is the process of achieving the goals created through policy statecraft making: war/coercion/deterrence. Diplomacy can be about carrots and sticks. Diplomacy emerges out of the interaction between those groups: a combination of engagement and separateness. Engage with people who you want to have relations with but you want to maintain a level of separateness. Emotional attachment: you conduct diplomacy with polities that you have less emotional attachment to than your own people, diplomacy as a relational process. Not just an outcome, the negotiation itself is diplomacy: what diplomacy is not, statecraft/foreign policy. Diplomacy is not synonymous to the violent mechanisms. We cannot reduce diplomacy to negotiation because we negotiate a lot: realism diplomacy as the means to maximize state power using coercion to, negotiation, diplomacy in ir theory of things in life do so. State agents try to maximize their power.
