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Name: Yolanda Spies
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About Prof Yolanda Spies
Yolanda Kemp Spies is an alumna of the Oxford 欧美福利100000 Diplomatic Studies Programme, which she now directs. She served as a South African diplomat for 18 years before joining academia in 2005. Her doctoral studies on diplomatic training for developing countries resulted in her designing a customised Master of Diplomatic Studies for the 欧美福利100000 of Pretoria; a programme she directed until 2016. Thereafter she taught diplomacy at various other universities, inter alia as adjunct professor at Webster 欧美福利100000 in Accra, Ghana and as Associate Professor: International Studies at Zayed 欧美福利100000, UAE. Since 2016 she has also been a Senior Research Fellow of the SARCHI Chair in African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg; and in 2020 she was appointed as Senior Fellow of the Geneva-based DiploFoundation.听 Her research areas include diplomacy; foreign policy analysis; international organization; international law; conflict resolution; changing global power relations; African politics; and the theory and ethics of international relations. This eclectic, interdisciplinary research range was reflected in her two books on the theory and practice of diplomacy, both published during 2019 (respectively 鈥楪lobal Diplomacy and International Society鈥� and 鈥楪lobal South Perspectives on Diplomacy鈥�).