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Editor-in-Chief @Hague_Jour_Dipl | Prof | Think-Tanker-turned-Academic | 📚| @ISGA_Hague @Uantwerpen | 🌳| Posting infrequently.

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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
link.growkudos.com/1q0taq33mkg This chapter in our new book is Open Access.
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Theorising and Debating the Domestic Deficit in IR and Diplomatic Studies (New Book Chapter)
We propose the notion of ‘home engagement’ to highlight the mutual relationship between diplomacy and the domestic publics, focusing on the agency of citizens as stakeholders in foreign policy. By cri...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Will you be in Bologna next week, at the EISA conference? Contact me if you are interested in discussing your research with a view to submitting it to The Hague Journal of Diplomacy.
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Join our Symposium on *Japan between the East and the West* in The Hague! Experts from the Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe will debate Japan's international challenges when the 80-year-old international liberal order is shaken if not collapsing. www.universiteitleiden.nl/hjd/news/202...
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Symposium: Japan between the East and the West
Friday 25 April 2025 | Leiden University Institute of Security and Global Affairs – The Hague
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
@Haguediplo.bsky.social 20:1 is out now. Is a regular issue really regular when its authors are from 5 continents? HJD 2025:1 is the first issue celebrating our 20th anniversary.
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Netherlands stops all development cooperation projects on women’s rights and gender equality. Dutch Feminist Foreign Policy? With a little bit of luck: at home.
Netherlands stops all development cooperation projects on women’s rights and gender equality. Feminist Foreign Policy? With a little bit of luck at home only.
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Beijing has some 50 Chinese Cultural Centres worldwide. Here is how they operate. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ha...
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The Hague Journal of Diplomacy on LinkedIn: The China Cultural Centre Project
In the past two decades, People's Republic of China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has established nearly 50 Chinese Cultural Centres across Europe, Asia…
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
@haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social is looking for a European Associate Editor to join our diverse team and help shape the future research agenda in Diplomatic Studies. @europeanisa.bsky.social
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This article on Caste and Secularism in Indian Diplomacy, by Sankaran Krishna, is now online. It is the first in a ground-breaking special issue on Caste and Diplomacy. Stay tuned. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This article on Caste and Secularism in Indian Diplomacy, by Sankaran Krishna, is now online. It is the first in a ground-breaking special issue on Caste and Diplomacy. Stay tuned. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Feature Review on China's Foreign Policy Contradictions, by Tim Nicholas Ruehlig: a healthy antidote to the current overreliance on China Threat narratives and the US superpower perspective. Reviewed for @Hague_Jour_Dipl by Caroline Seil. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Featured Review | China’s foreign policy contradictions lessons from China’s R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO policy
Rühlig, Tim Nicholas, ed., China’s foreign policy contradictions lessons from China’s R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO policy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022). Pp. xvi +259. €90.81 (Hardcover). €5...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This original research on the China Cultural Centres (CCCs) by Minglei Wang is one of *four* articles on China's diplomacy in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This original research on the China Cultural Centres (CCCs) by Minglei Wang is one of *four* articles on China's diplomacy in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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The Hague Journal of Diplomacy on LinkedIn: Going Along to Get Along: Diplomatic Pressure and Interstate Socialization…
"How can states initiate a socialization process that crystalizes a political consensus on global, multilateral issues over time? What can condition the…
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Feature Review on China's Foreign Policy Contradictions, by Tim Nicholas Ruehlig: a healthy antidote to the current overreliance on China Threat narratives and the US superpower perspective. Reviewed for @Hague_Jour_Dipl by Caroline Seil. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Featured Review | China’s foreign policy contradictions lessons from China’s R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO policy
Rühlig, Tim Nicholas, ed., China’s foreign policy contradictions lessons from China’s R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO policy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022). Pp. xvi +259. €90.81 (Hardcover). €5...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Taiwan's Youth Ambassadors: critical of social media and their influencers, and not impressed by the two-way communication emphasized by digital diplomacy. Article by Yavor Kostadinov and Emily Chow now in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
@europeanisa has a Diplomatic Studies Section! Submit your paper abstract for the Bologna conference in August. eisa-net.org/section-list/ eisa-net.org/abstract-submi… @isadiplomacy @Hague_Jour_Dipl @ISGA_Hague
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Chinese Humanitarian Aid is an Important Diplomatic Tool - rewarding closer partnerships with China and penalising their absence. Read the analysis by Hermann Aubé, Lauri Paaltema and Tommi Sokani, in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
How Ambassadors Establish Trust in International Relations. Read the review of this book by David Lindsey, reviewed in @Hague_Jour_Dipl by Tamás Peragovics. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
How Ambassadors Establish Trust in International Relations. Read the review of this book by David Lindsey, reviewed in @Hague_Jour_Dipl by Tamás Peragovics. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Chinese Humanitarian Aid is an Important Diplomatic Tool - rewarding closer partnerships with China and penalising their absence. Read the analysis by Hermann Aubé, Lauri Paaltema and Tommi Sokani, in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Taiwan's Youth Ambassadors: critical of social media and their influencers, and not impressed by the two-way communication emphasized by digital diplomacy. Article by Yavor Kostadinov and Emily Chow now in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
@europeanisa has a Diplomatic Studies Section! Submit your paper abstract for the Bologna conference in August. eisa-net.org/section-list/ eisa-net.org/abstract-submi… @isadiplomacy @Hague_Jour_Dipl @ISGA_Hague
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This article in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl adds a Gender Perspective to the literature on Paradiplomacy. It discusses the influence of electoral systems and party ideology in autonomous communities in Spain. @ISGA_Hague @isadiplomacy brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This new book in the Brill Diplomatic Studies series explores how diplomatic pressure shapes global governance at the UN. Naif Al-Mulla shows the impact on foreign policy + global multilateral outcomes. @ISGA_Hague @isadiplomacy @Brill_Social brill.com/display/titl...
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Going Along to Get Along: Diplomatic Pressure and Interstate Socialization at the United Nations
"Going Along to Get Along: Diplomatic Pressure and Interstate Socialization at the United Nations" published on 16 Dec 2024 by Brill.
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
This article in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl suggests that the seeds of a sister city partnership live within the diaspora community. Willoughby Fortunoff, Cheryl Martens and Jenny Albarracín Méndez argue in favour of a re-imagined sister city approach. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
This article in advance in @Hague_Jour_Dipl suggests that the seeds of a sister city partnership live within the diaspora community. Willoughby Fortunoff, Cheryl Martens and Jenny Albarracín Méndez argue in favour of a re-imagined sister city approach. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Chinese diplomats abroad successfully influence their foreign counterparts’ perceptions of China. Astrid Schnitzer-Skjonsberg explains how they do it. brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Lean los últimos artículos sobre diplomacia de autores del mundo hispanohablante en @Hague_Jour_Dipl. @PauLamGon @AngelVillegasCr @AlbertoPriego @NoeCornago @juanmanfredi @arredondos @jorgeheinel brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
12 days to apply for this @sciencespo call for two PhDs on the international dimensions of populism. One of them is on populism and diplomacy. sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/conten… @isadiplomacy @europeanisa @Hague_Jour_Diplsciencespo.fr/ceri/en/cont...ts
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Call for Doctoral Contracts | Sciences Po CERI
Call for Doctoral Contracts : The International Dimensions and Effects of Populism (IDEoPOP) The Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris is seeking to appoint two PhD candidates t...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Read @Hague_Jour_Dipl Forum on *Strategic Functions of Future Diplomacy*. What to do when diplomacy itself is under attack and the power of the West is in decline. @Arjan_Uilenreef @mlafontrapnouil + my intro. @DutchMFA @francediplo brill.com/view/journal...
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Jan Melissen @janmdiplo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Reflecting on my participation in the Beijing Forum: if more and more Western pundits and academics stop going to China - and vice versa - it is not difficult to guess what this means for professional relationships and the important meeting of different systems of thought.
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