Jan Melissen
Editor-in-Chief @Hague_Jour_Dipl | Prof | Think-Tanker-turned-Academic | 📚| @ISGA_Hague @Uantwerpen | 🌳| Posting infrequently.
- Will you be in Bologna next week, at the EISA conference? Contact me if you are interested in discussing your research with a view to submitting it to The Hague Journal of Diplomacy.
- Join our Symposium on *Japan between the East and the West* in The Hague! Experts from the Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe will debate Japan's international challenges when the 80-year-old international liberal order is shaken if not collapsing. www.universiteitleiden.nl/hjd/news/202...
- @Haguediplo.bsky.social 20:1 is out now. Is a regular issue really regular when its authors are from 5 continents? HJD 2025:1 is the first issue celebrating our 20th anniversary.
- Netherlands stops all development cooperation projects on women’s rights and gender equality. Dutch Feminist Foreign Policy? With a little bit of luck: at home.
- Beijing has some 50 Chinese Cultural Centres worldwide. Here is how they operate. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ha...
- @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social is looking for a European Associate Editor to join our diverse team and help shape the future research agenda in Diplomatic Studies. @europeanisa.bsky.social
- This article on Caste and Secularism in Indian Diplomacy, by Sankaran Krishna, is now online. It is the first in a ground-breaking special issue on Caste and Diplomacy. Stay tuned. brill.com/view/journal...
- This original research on the China Cultural Centres (CCCs) by Minglei Wang is one of *four* articles on China's diplomacy in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl. brill.com/view/journal...
- Feature Review on China's Foreign Policy Contradictions, by Tim Nicholas Ruehlig: a healthy antidote to the current overreliance on China Threat narratives and the US superpower perspective. Reviewed for @Hague_Jour_Dipl by Caroline Seil. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
- How Ambassadors Establish Trust in International Relations. Read the review of this book by David Lindsey, reviewed in @Hague_Jour_Dipl by Tamás Peragovics. brill.com/view/journal...
- Chinese Humanitarian Aid is an Important Diplomatic Tool - rewarding closer partnerships with China and penalising their absence. Read the analysis by Hermann Aubé, Lauri Paaltema and Tommi Sokani, in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl brill.com/view/journal...
- @europeanisa has a Diplomatic Studies Section! Submit your paper abstract for the Bologna conference in August. eisa-net.org/section-list/ eisa-net.org/abstract-submi… @isadiplomacy @Hague_Jour_Dipl @ISGA_Hague
- As far as I am concerned, a one-year @europeanisa Diplomatic Studies section that will sooner rather than later change its skin and become a Standing Section, reflecting the vitality of diplomatic studies in Europe.
- Taiwan's Youth Ambassadors: critical of social media and their influencers, and not impressed by the two-way communication emphasized by digital diplomacy. Article by Yavor Kostadinov and Emily Chow now in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl. brill.com/view/journal...
- This article in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl adds a Gender Perspective to the literature on Paradiplomacy. It discusses the influence of electoral systems and party ideology in autonomous communities in Spain. @ISGA_Hague @isadiplomacy brill.com/view/journal...
- This new book in the Brill Diplomatic Studies series explores how diplomatic pressure shapes global governance at the UN. Naif Al-Mulla shows the impact on foreign policy + global multilateral outcomes. @ISGA_Hague @isadiplomacy @Brill_Social brill.com/display/titl...
- Reposted by Jan MelissenThis article in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl suggests that the seeds of a sister city partnership live within the diaspora community. Willoughby Fortunoff, Cheryl Martens and Jenny Albarracín Méndez argue in favour of a re-imagined sister city approach. brill.com/view/journal...
