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What is Sociability in Diplomacy?

In: Diplomatica
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Naoko Shimazu Yale-nus College, Singapore, naoko.shimazu@yale-nus.edu.sg

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The Bandung Conference of 1955 illustrates several important points about the exercise of contemporary diplomacy, with its careful mixing of cultural symbolism, Cold War politics, anti-colonialism, and the cultivation of “sociability” among the diplomats and leaders present. Among those points is the difficulty in drawing a distinction between the informal and formal aspects of social engineering in this instance, with everyone – especially diplomatic wives – playing significant roles.

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