{"product_id":"diplomatic-material-affect-assemblage-and-foreign-policy-9780822368823","title":"Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy","description":"In \u003ci\u003eDiplomatic Material \u003c\/i\u003eJason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers. Bringing new materialism to bear on international relations, Dittmer focuses not on what the state does in the world but on how the world operates within the state through the circulation of humans and nonhuman objects. From examining how paper storage needs impacted the design of the British Foreign Office Building to discussing the 1953 NATO decision to adopt the .30 caliber bullet as the standard rifle ammunition, Dittmer highlights the contingency of human agency within international relations. In Dittmer's model, which eschews stasis, structural forces, and historical trends in favor of dynamism and becoming, the international community is less a coming-together of states than it is a convergence of media, things, people, and practices. In this way, Dittmer locates power in the unfolding of processes on the micro level, thereby reconceptualizing our understandings of diplomacy and international relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Dittmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 3.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822368823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJason Dittmer is Professor of Political Geography at University College London and the author of \u003ci\u003eCaptain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDiplomatic Cultures and International Politics: Translations, Spaces, and Alternatives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40955527331955,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":170.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_dfdb3b42-c51f-4a10-a10a-607e620de4db.jpg?v=1694624858","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/diplomatic-material-affect-assemblage-and-foreign-policy-9780822368823","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}