Ny diplomatihistoria : Historisk bakgrund och nordisk framtid
(2024) In Scandia 90(1). p.115-128- Abstract
- Diplomatic history is one of the giants of historical scholarship, which has often been questioned and challenged throughout its lifetime. This article discusses the field of New Diplomatic History centered on definitions of diplomacy in general and specifically on research on the early modern period during the last decades. Special focus is placed on Nordic early modern diplomatic history through a number of research projects that have been and are active at the Historical Department at Lund University. These projects reflect the general turn towards social, cultural, and global analyses that characterize new diplomatic history. The article argues that criticism of the older diplomatic history’s macro-historical perspective should be seen... (More)
- Diplomatic history is one of the giants of historical scholarship, which has often been questioned and challenged throughout its lifetime. This article discusses the field of New Diplomatic History centered on definitions of diplomacy in general and specifically on research on the early modern period during the last decades. Special focus is placed on Nordic early modern diplomatic history through a number of research projects that have been and are active at the Historical Department at Lund University. These projects reflect the general turn towards social, cultural, and global analyses that characterize new diplomatic history. The article argues that criticism of the older diplomatic history’s macro-historical perspective should be seen in a more nuanced or creative light with the global historical turn, and above all that Nordic diplomatic history has an important role to play in balancing theoretical models developed primarily on examples from Continental Europe. Depending on the approaches chosen, continued studies on Nordic diplomatic history in the early modern era can offer great opportunities to rethink international diplomacy – its centers and peripheries, actors and interconnectivities. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Diplomatihistorien hör till en av historievetenskapens giganter som under sin livsbana ofta ifrågasatts och utmanats. Denna artikel inleds med en historiografisk tillbakablick på framväxten av New Diplomatic History, dess definitioner av tidigmodern diplomati, samt en överblick av aktuella forskningsteman och frågor i internationell forskning. Särskilt fokus läggs på nordisk diplomatihistoria via ett antal forskningsprojekt som varit och är verksamma vid historiska institutionen vid Lunds universitet. Inriktningen på dessa återspeglar de social-, kultur- och globalhistoriska vändningar som utmärker ny diplomatihistoria. Artikeln menar att kritiken av den äldre diplomatihistoriens makrohistoriska perspektiv bör ses i ett mer nyanserat eller... (More)
- Diplomatihistorien hör till en av historievetenskapens giganter som under sin livsbana ofta ifrågasatts och utmanats. Denna artikel inleds med en historiografisk tillbakablick på framväxten av New Diplomatic History, dess definitioner av tidigmodern diplomati, samt en överblick av aktuella forskningsteman och frågor i internationell forskning. Särskilt fokus läggs på nordisk diplomatihistoria via ett antal forskningsprojekt som varit och är verksamma vid historiska institutionen vid Lunds universitet. Inriktningen på dessa återspeglar de social-, kultur- och globalhistoriska vändningar som utmärker ny diplomatihistoria. Artikeln menar att kritiken av den äldre diplomatihistoriens makrohistoriska perspektiv bör ses i ett mer nyanserat eller kreativt ljus i och med den globalhistoriska vändningen och framför allt att nordisk diplomatihistoria har en viktig roll att spela för att balansera teoretiska modeller framtagna på huvudsakligen kontinentaleuropeiska exempel. Beroende på vilka ingångar som väljs kan fortsatta studier erbjuda stora möjligheter att tänka nytt om diplomatins rumslighet – dess centrum och periferi och de diplomatiska processernas riktningar och sammanflätningar. (Less)
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- Östlund, Joachim LU
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- alternative title
- New Diplomatic History : Its History and Nordic Future
- publishing date
- 2024
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- Contribution to journal
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- keywords
- Ny diplomatihistoria, konsulär diplomati, tidigmodern, globalhistoria, nordisk historia, New Diplomatic History,, consular diplomacy, early modern, global history, Nordic history
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- Scandia
- volume
- 90
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 14 pages
- publisher
- Stiftelsen Scandia
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- scopus:85195781168
- ISSN
- 0036-5483
- DOI
- 10.47868/scandia.v90i1.26314
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- Swedish
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