The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada, Jorge Heine, CIGI Chair in Global Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Ramesh Thakur, Director, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada

Andrew F. Cooper was previously a visiting scholar at Harvard University, University of Southern California, Australian National University, Stellenbosch University and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He has led training sessions on trade issues, governance and diplomacy in Canada, South Africa and at the World Trade Organization. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of both the GARNET Network of Excellence and the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and has been a member of the Warwick Commission. Andrew Cooper's most recent publications focus on emerging powers, G8 reform, small states, Latin America, global health governance, and the phenomenon of celebrity diplomacy. He is Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow at CIGI. He is Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo where he teaches in the areas of International Political Economy, Global Governance, and Comparative Politics.

Jorge Heine is a former (2006-2009) vice-president of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) , he was previously Ambassador of Chile to India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka (2003-2007), and Ambassador to South Africa (1994-1999) as well as a Cabinet Minister and Deputy Minister in the Chilean Government. A lawyer and political scientist, he has been a visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford and a research associate at The Wilson Center in Washington D.C. He has held postdoctoral fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and has been a consultant to the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, and Oxford Analytica. He is CIGI Chair of Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, and Distinguished Fellow at CIGI.

Ramesh Thakur was Vice Rector and Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations) from 1998-2007. Educated in India and Canada, he was a Professor of International Relations at the University of Otago in New Zealand and Professor and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University, during which time he was also a consultant/adviser to the Australian and New Zealand governments on arms control, disarmament, and international security issues. He was a Commissioner and one of the principal authors of The Responsibility to Protect(2001), and Senior Adviser on Reforms and Principal Writer of the United Nations Secretary-General's second reform report (2002). He is Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (CNND) in the Crawford School, Australian National University and Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Ethics, Governance and Law at Griffith University.

Pamela Aall is a Senior Vice President at the U.S. Institute of Peace and Provost of USIP's Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding.
Martti Ahtisaari was the tenth President of Finland (1994-2000). He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008.
Lloyd Axworthy is President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Winnipeg. He served as Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister from 1996 to 2000.
Sir Nicholas Bayne is a Fellow at the International Trade Policy Unit of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
David Black is Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies (IDS) at Dalhousie University.
Alicia Buenrostro is Consul General of Mexico in Hong Kong.
Simon Chesterman is Dean of the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law.
General Juan Emilio Cheyre (R) is the founding Director of the Center of International Studies at the Catholic University of Chile. He served as Commander in Chief, Chilean Army, from 2002 to 2006.
Gregory Chin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at York University, and Senior Fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Jennifer Clapp is CIGI chair in Global Environmental Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and a Professor in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo.
Daryl Copeland, a former Canadian diplomat, is an analyst specializing in diplomacy, international policy, global issues and public management.
Andrew F. Cooper is Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and Distinguished Fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. He served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1981 to 1989.
Jayantha Dhanapala is a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs and a former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the USA and to the UN Office in Geneva.
Sanderijn Duquet is a Junior Member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KULeuven.
Jan Egeland is the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch, Director of Human Rights Watch Europe and Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Lorraine Elliott is Professor, Department of International Relations, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies at the Australian National University.
John English is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Canadian Forces College.
Gareth Evans is President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group and a former Foreign Minister of Australia (1988-1996).
Tom Farer is University Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He was previously president of the University of New Mexico.
Richard Feinberg is Professor of International Political Economy at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. He served as President Bill Clinton's Director for Latin American affairs in The White House.
David Fidler is James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law at the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington.
David P. Forsythe is University Professor and Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Louise Fréchette is a Distinguished Fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation and former deputy secretary-general at the United Nations.
Patricia M. Goff is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University
Sir Jeremy Greenstock is Chairman of the UN Association in the UK and Chairman of the strategic advisory company Gatehouse Advisory Partners Ltd. He is a former United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
A.J.R. Groom is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent I and Visiting Professor of Politics at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Fen Osler Hampson is Chancellor's Professor & Director of the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University.
Jorge Heine is CIGI Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Political Economy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science of the University of Waterloo.
Kathryn Hochstetler is CIGI Chair of Governance in the Americas at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.
Kal Holsti is University Killam Professor Emeritus, and a Research Associate with the Centre for International Relations in the Liu Institute, the University of British Columbia.
Rebecca Johnson is currently a Visiting Professor at the Birkbeck School of Law in London (UK) and Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria.
Margaret P. Karns is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Dayton, and the founding Director of the University of Dayton's Center for International Programs.
Kishore Mahbubani is Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He previously served twice as Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
William Maley is Professor and Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University.
David M. Malone is President of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). He served previously as Canada's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as High Commissioner to India.
The Right Honourable Paul Martin was the twenty-first Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006 and the Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2002.
Jan Melissen is Head of the Clingendael Diplomatic Studies Programme (CDSP) at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael', The Hague, and Professor of Diplomacy at the University of Antwerp.
Katrien Meuwissen is Junior Member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KULeuven.
Greg Mills is the Director of the Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg.He was the National Director of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) from 1996 to 2004.
Karen A. Mingst is Lockwood Chair in the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky.
Amrita Narlikar is Reader in International Political Economy at the Department of Politics and International Studies, and is Official Fellow of Darwin College.
Joseph S. Nye Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University and former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. He served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1994 t0 1995.
Maiike Okano-Heijmans is a research fellow for diplomatic studies and Asia studies at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations 'Clingendael'.
Byron Peacock is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University.
Geoffrey Allen Pigman is Professor of Political Economy, Bennington College.
Shawn Powers is an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University and an Associate Director at the Center on International Media Education.
Kristiina Rintakoski the Director for Advocacy at the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM).
Andrés Rozental is the founding president of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. He served previously as Mexico's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as ambassador to the United Nations, the United Kingdom and Sweden.
Benjamin Schiff is William G. and Jeanette Williams Smith Professor of Politics at Oberlin College.
Pierre Schori is a Swedish diplomat and served from 2005 until the beginning of 2007 as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of Mission in Côte d'Ivoire.
SU Changhe is Professor of International Affairs and Vice Dean at the School of International and Diplomatic Affairs (SIDA), Shanghai International Studies University.
Ramesh Thakur is Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, and Director of the Center for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (CNND).
Diana Tussie heads the Department of International Relations at FLACSO/Argentina and is the founding Director of the Latin American Trade Network (LATN).
Thomas G. Weiss is Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York.
David A. Welch is Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, where he holds the CIGI Chair in International Security. He is also Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.
Stephen Woolcock is Programme Director for the Master's in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Jan Wouters is Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Institute for International Law at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Together the 49 contributors show an extraordinary continuity, that ties the work together. In terms of depth and breadth of information on the changing practice of twenty-first century diplomacy, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy deserves a well-earned spot on the bookshelf of any scholar or practitioner of international relations. - Melissa Conley Tyler, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy