Asia-Pacific diplomacies : reading discontinuity in late-modern diplomatic practice

• Main Author: Tan, See Seng
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91122; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4476
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Practices of representation are productive in that they make international life intelligible. As representational practices, orthodox, diplomatic discourses reduce the heterological 'nature' of diplomatic activity to a single, monological reading. Although historical evidence suggests that...