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This superb study demonstrates to the full the value of delving into all aspects of the diplomatic life-world in order to gain a more complete appreciation and understanding of how diplomacy 'works'. The attention to detail is admirable, and the critical judgement is subtle and evident throughout. A wonderful book that looks at first glance like a straightforward diplomatic biography but that actually delivers a far more complex analysis to re-assess diplomatic history and practice in one go. --Giles Scott Smith, Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History, RIAS/Leiden University, The Netherlands Susanna Erlandsson offers a fascinating portrait of diplomats as fully rounded human beings, showing why and how spouses, cooks, entertaining, dress, and much more are an integral part of international affairs. Personal Politics in the Postwar World will be an essential reference for anyone interested in the art of diplomacy. --Barbara Keys, Professor of History, Durham University, UK Placing the heterosexual couple - the diplomat and his wife - at the center of mid-century Western diplomacy, Erlandsson provides a superb account of just how integral the diplomatic home, food and family were for diplomatic interactions. A must read for anyone interested in the gendered, racialized and classed micro-foundations of diplomacy. --Ann Towns, Professor of Political Science and Head of GenDip, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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Susanna Erlandsson is a researcher at the Department of History of Uppsala University, Sweden, and editor-in-chief of the leading Swedish historical journal Historisk tidskrift. Her 2015 dissertation Window of Opportunity, a comparative study of Dutch and Swedish security ideas and strategies in the 1940s, won several awards. She has since published extensively on small states as well as on gender and diplomacy.

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