We start off with Tracey A. Sowerby who many of you already know from her many publications and conferences that she organised. On the international scene, she really put #emdiplomacy and its cultural aspects back on the map.
She especially focusses on #diplomatic cultures, on #gender and #earlymodern#diplomacy and cross-confessional #diplomacy.
In 2021, she edited a volume on diplomatic cultures at the Ottoman Court.
For the handbook he explores the development of the field of #InternationalRelations and its relation to #diplomatic#history. Over the years both fields have often tackled similar questions, according to Leira, but interestingly mostly separately from each other. There has been exchange, but there’s still room for collaboration and learning from each other.
Thus, he gives us some suggestions what the history of #emdiplomacy specifically could learn from International Relations. (3/5)