This analytical essay highlights the importance of status orders in the study of status and
prestige in world politics. Drawing on recent research in the field, I argue that understanding …

Much of what peacekeepers do on a daily basis is best understood through the lens of
practice, and practice theorists have begun to explore the process by which practice change …

This introductory article situates Ministries of Foreign Affairs (mfa s) as gendered institutions
at the intersection between domestic and international relations. Based on an extensive …

The article analyses how and to what effect diplomats navigate a landscape in which the
physical and the digital have become inextricably intertwined, with emphasis on written …

Why are some practices available to some actors in world politics, but not to others? In this
theory note, we develop a theory of agency as positionally distributed: In global politics, the …

Abstract While International Relations scholarship has increasingly addressed questions of
race, the literature on international organizations (IOs) has been slower to do so. In …

The concept of habitus is a centerpiece of Pierre Bourdieu's cultural sociology and is among
the most popular conceptual imports into the Bourdieu-inspired “practice turn” in …

This article presents a theory and analysis of the social aesthetics of digital diplomacy.
Drawing inspiration from the sociology of taste and visual theory, we conceptualize social …

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent emergence of “Zoom
diplomacy,” scholarship on digital diplomacy has shifted attention from the nexus between …

This research critically investigates the public diplomacy strategies deployed by a cohort of
influential female European leaders on Twitter during the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022 …