ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in this book. The book summarizes how we propose to study diplomacy as communication. It discusses the neglected relationship between gender and diplomacy. The book juxtaposes diplomacy with its conceptual nemesis, anti-diplomacy. It explains how new forms of diplomacies may assist diplomats in coping with future challenges. The book explores how to apply sets of literature to the study of diplomacy that are usually applied to political and social phenomena other than diplomacy. It takes the new tools from inside and outside of Political Science and International Relations, reaching into adjacent disciplines such as Communications, Economics, Law, Ethics, Psychology and Sociology. The book concludes that deep transformations in global politics are sometimes seen as the end of diplomacy. Evidence given for this claim usually includes the pressures on foreign ministries to compete with new actors or to address new issue areas.
