Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order: The 'New' Heteronomy (Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations)

Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. This book combines organization theory oriented institutionalism with Eisenstadt's work on comparative liminality, to develop a unique analytical framework and explore the dynamic of stability and change in institutionalized orders. It then applies this framework to analyze ways how three fringe players of the modern diplomatic order - the Holy See (HS), the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), and the European Union (EU) have been accommodated within that order. Batora and Hynek reveal that the modern diplomatic order is less state-centric than conventionally assumed and is instead better conceived of as a heteronomy - an order characterized by co-existence of units with different age, and structurally and ontologically different principles of growth and operation. They argue that this heteronomous character of the modern diplomatic order renders it more robust and far less susceptible to change than much of the proliferating literature on the changing nature of diplomacy has presented it Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-18 Social Scientific Conceptualizations of Diplomacy....Pages 19-45 Diplomacy as an Institution Embedded in Environments, Structures and Practices....Pages 46-65 Studying Liminality and Fringe Players in the Modern Diplomatic Order....Pages 66-86 The Holy See: Global Borderless Sovereignty and Double-Hatted Diplomats....Pages 87-111 The Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Extraordinary Resilience Meets Chance....Pages 112-137 The European Union: Bending the Rules to Fit in....Pages 138-157 Conclusion — Liminality, Co-existing Diplomatic Orders and the “New” Diplomatic Heteronomy....Pages 158-178 Back Matter....Pages 179-214 This book analyzes ways how three fringe players of the modern diplomatic order - the Holy See, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and the EU – have been accommodated within that order, revealing that the modern diplomatic order is less state-centric than conventionally assumed and is instead better conceived of as a heteronomy.