ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the impact of gender upon international relations in the contradictory setting established by the new order of the Paris Peace treaties. Supported by the League of Nations, the introduction of 'international relations' as an academic field of study provided access to new diplomacy via academic knowledge. It also discusses female access to newly established academic institutions. The participation of women in international relations points up the interferences between the old order of diplomacy-related national foreign policy and the new order described as 'new diplomacy', based on the conceptual reframing of international relations. The difficult and inconsistent introduction of female diplomats shows that the dynamics of change started at the peripheries of international relations, within the informal international networks located in Geneva and at the lower-end rungs of the ladder of diplomatic representation. The first women diplomats represented the Soviet Union, the United States, the states of Scandinavia, Latin America and other states founded after 1919.
