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15 Hague J. Dipl. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.intyb/hagjd0015 and id is 1 raw text is: THE HAGUE JOURNAL OF DIPLOMACY 15 (2020) 1-12 HD BRIL L NIJHOF F brill.com/hjd Ministries of Foreign Affairs: A Crucial Institution Revisited i Introduction The scholar who attends international conferences and reads regular publi- cations on diplomatic studies and foreign policy analysis is confronted with one indisputable observation: If plenty of new academic research on contem- porary diplomatic practices has emerged, few of those studies paradoxically focus on the comparative role of ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs). Thus, providing academic material to students on MFAs requires using chapters published in general textbooks;1 monographs based on single-country case studies;2 practitioners' accounts, which can be rather descriptive;3 and, finally, research published more than fifteen years ago.4 The goal of this special issue is to fill this gap in the literature by devoting a complete journal issue to the contemporary role of MFAS in diplomacy. The special issue is built on three components: original research articles, theoretical accounts and practitioners' accounts. Making a distinction between the three types of contributions is a clear choice to clarify who is speaking from where. 2 Why so Few Studies on MFAs? Four reasons explain the dearth of recent comparative studies on the role of MFAS in the world. The first reason is a natural preference of scholars for new diplomatic in- stitutions rather than classical ones. They consider it more exciting to work on new international institutions such as the European External Action Service operating in the context of the European Union,5 or nongovernmental 1 Berridge 2015; Constantinou, Kerr and Sharp 2016; Kerr and Wiseman 2018; Balzacq, Charillon and Ramel 2020. 2 Neumann 2012; Lequesne 2020. 3 Ranazoo,2011. 4 Hocking 1999; Hocking and Spence 2003. 5 Morgenstem-Pomorski 2018; Gatti 2016; Balfour, Carta and Raik 2015. © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2020 1 DOI:10.1163/1871191X-BJA10003

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