Welcome to our discussion with Professor Iver B. Neumann, a prominent Norwegian political scientist and social anthropologist, and Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo. In this interview, we examine the shifting dynamics of European diplomacy in the context of the Israeli-Gaza conflict, the war in Ukraine, and internal EU divisions. Stay with us as we explore the impact of these developments on diplomatic strategies, theoretical perspectives, and the role of public opinion and media in international relations.
Content
- Impact of the Israeli-Gaza Conflict and the War in Ukraine on European Diplomatic Resources
- Assessment of European Diplomatic Evolution
- Internal Divisions within European Diplomacy
- Competences of the European External Action Service (EEAS)
- Debate on Strengthening the EEAS
- Public Opinion and Its Influence on European Diplomacy
- Role of Media in Shaping Diplomatic Discourse
- European Diplomacy and Its Engagement with the Middle East
- EU Diplomacy and the Recognition of a Palestinian State
- Critiques of EU Diplomacy from Non-European Nations
- Diplomacy as Practice vs. Diplomacy as Foreign Policy
- Diplomacy and Theoretical Frameworks
- Influence of Realist, Liberal, and Constructivist Paradigms on Diplomacy
- Is Diplomacy a Eurocentric Notion? Myth or Reality?
- Prominent Schools of Diplomacy
- Distinctive Features of Norwegian Diplomacy
Iver B. Neumann
Professor Neumann is a Norwegian political scientist and social anthropologist. He is Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Oslo.
From 2012-2017 he was the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also served as Research Director and Director at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and adjunct professor in International Relations at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
His research focuses on how polities relate to one another, in pre-history, in history, in imagined worlds, and in principle. Iver likes drawing on Continental social theory to analyse this, and use empirical examples from Russian foreign policy, Norwegian foreign policy and, increasingly, from archaeology.
Selected publications:
Neumann, I. (2022). Diplomaten som helt: Fridtjof Nansen. Internasjonal Politikk, 80(2), 236–254. https://doi.org/10.23865/intpol.v80.3741
Neumann, I. B. (2020). Diplomatic tenses: A social evolutionary perspective on diplomacy. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526148735
Neumann, I. B. (2012). At home with the diplomats: Inside a European foreign ministry. Cornell University Press.
