Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
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
· Sep 18
This is a milestone issue for HJD. Many thanks, Deepak, for your crucial role as assigned editor!
Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Aug 19
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.
Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Apr 14
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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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.
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Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Mar 3
@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.
Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Feb 20
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.
Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Feb 10
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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Beijing has some 50 Chinese Cultural Centres worldwide. Here is how they operate.
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Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Feb 7
@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
Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Feb 6
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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.
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Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Jan 31
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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.
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Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Jan 29
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
· Jan 28
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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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...
Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Jan 24
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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...
Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Jan 24
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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
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Jan Melissen
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· Jan 24
As far as I am concerned, a one-year @europeanisa Diplomatic Studies section that will sooner rather than later change its skin and become a Standing Section, reflecting the vitality of diplomatic studies in Europe.
Jan Melissen
@janmdiplo.bsky.social
· Jan 24
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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...