The end of monopoly of state diplomacy

In 1994, Susan Strange wrote the article “Wake up, Krasner! The world has changed!” (Strange, 1994), in order to highlight that paradigm of our contemporary international system has transformed since “structural change” occurred in the areas of production, finance, knowledge and communication. Indeed, Susan Strange contests the neorealist view that foreign policy is based on conventional diplomatic and military issues driven only by states, but also she calls them to take into account the role of market and corporations in foreign policy. Definition and research question By “diplomacy” we mean the foreign representation of interest of one country or a political community, so this role is not anymore exclusively…