List of Contributors1 Ministries of Foreign Affairs: A Crucial Institution to be RevisitedPart 1: Recruitment and Career2 The Social Origin of Career Diplomats in Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Still an Upper-Class Elite?3 The Gendered Networking of Diplomats4 Ethnic Diversity in the Recruitment of Diplomats: Why MFA s Take the Issue Seriously5 The Making of a Diplomatic Elite in a Revolutionary State: Loyalty, Expertise and Representativeness in Iran's Ministry of Foreign AffairsPart 2: Diplomacy and Politics6 Expertise and Politics in Ministries of Foreign Affairs: The Politician-Diplomat Nexus7 The Impact of Leader-Centric Populism on Career Diplomats: Tests of Loyalty, Voice, and Exit in Ministries of Foreign Affairs8 The Impact of Globalisation and Neoliberal Structural Reforms on the Mexican Ministry of Foreign AffairsPart 3: New Policy Practices9 Implementing the EU's Russia Sanctions: A Geoeconomic Test Case for French and German Ministries of Foreign Affairs10 Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Challenge of Science Diplomacy11 Consular Diplomacy in the Era of Growing Mobility12 Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Lessons from Denmark's TechPlomacy Initiative13 The Mediatisation of Ministries of Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy in the New Media Ecology14 From Delhi to Dili: Facebook Diplomacy by Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the Asia-PacificPart 4: Researching and Theorising mfa s15 Approaching Ministries of Foreign Affairs through Ethnographic Work16 Diplomacy in the Rearview Mirror: Implications of Face-to-Face Diplomacy Ritual Disruption for Ministries of Foreign Affairs17 Distributed Agency: Foreign Policy sans MFA18 The Site of Foreign Policy: A Field Theory Account of Ministries of Foreign AffairsIndex