Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rise of parliamentary diplomacy in international politics / Stelios Stavridis and Davor Jančić -- World diplomacy of the European Parliament / Davor Jaňcić -- The role of the European Parliament president in parliamentary diplomacy / Luigi Gianniti and Nicola Lupo -- The diplomatic role of the European Parliament's standing committees, delegations and assemblies : insights from ACP-EU inter-parliamentary cooperation / Sarah Delputte, Cristina Fasone and Fabio Longo -- The diplomatic role of the European Parliament's political groups in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Yoav Shemer-Kunz -- The international role of the European Parliament's intergroups / Laurent Dutoit -- The EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and Turkey's EU accession process / Valentina Rita Scotti -- The impact of parliamentary diplomacy, civil society and human rights advocacy on EU strategic partners : the case of Mexico / Monica Velasco Pufleau -- A bridge with Russia? : the parliamentary assemblies of the OSCE and of the Council of Europe in the Russia-Ukraine crisis / Andrea Gawrich -- The south-east European cooperation process and its new parliamentary assembly : regional dialogue in action / Franklin De Vrieze -- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean and its contribution to democracy promotion and crisis management / Andrea Cofelice -- Parliamentary diplomacy and the US Congress : the case of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly / Zlatko Sabic -- Challenges for parliamentary diplomacy in South and South-East Asia and Europe : a practitioner's perspective / Xavier Nuttin -- Parliamentary diplomacy in the Chinese constitution and foreign policy / Wang Liwan -- Parliamentary diplomacy in northeast Asia : lessons from the Parliamentarians' Unions in Japan and South Korea / Jiun Bang -- Australia's parliamentary diplomacy : a study of the bilateral relationship with South Korea / Jeffrey Robertson -- Regional integration and parliamentary diplomacy : experiences of the MERCOSUR, Andean and Latin American Parliaments / Karina L. Pasquariello Mariano, Regiane Nitsch Bressan and Bruno Theodoro Luciano -- Understanding success and failure in the quest for peace : the Pan-African Parliament and the Amani Forum / Konstantinos Magliveras and Asteris Huliaras -- South Africa's parliamentary diplomacy and the 'African agenda' / Lesley Masters and Fritz Nganje -- Conclusions : parliamentary diplomacy as a global phenomenon / Stelios Stavridis.

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