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February 2021
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The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
Politicisation has characterised diplomatic gift-giving to the United Nations since its early years. Donations of decor and furnishings in some instances can be an equaliser, and in others can accentuate inequalities. Member States’ motives range from altruistic to self-seeking, but larger purposes are served, including increased cross-cultural understanding and community building.
... This 'semiotic invasion' (Lotman, 2005: 215) in the name of peace just adds to diplomacy's improbability, as sovereignty supposes the fiction of contiguous territories (Branch, 2016). The peace-and-power paradox and the improbability of overlapping sovereignties may explain why there is structural mistrust behind even seemingly harmless instantiations of diplomacy (Sievers, 2021); there will always be structural mistrust against the panda bear, as it semiotically signifies a sovereign, powerful China (Baudrillard, 1983). ...
February 2021
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
