TY - BOOK AU - BANAI Hussein TI - Diplomatic imaginations: mediating estrangement in world society PY - 2014/// KW - DIPLOMACY KW - WORLD POLITICS KW - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY N2 - This article is an inquiry into the relationship between diplomacy and public imagination in world politics. The author argues that diplomacy is very much implicated in the normative dictates of public imagination: namely the public understanding of history which arises from the exclusionary, and often conflicting, cultural narratives about nationhood, justice, language, rights, personhood etc that remain the perennial facts of human relations in world society UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2012.744640 ER -