TY - JOUR IS - 2 PB - Brill Y1 - 2020/// A1 - Dittmer, J UR - https://doi.org/10.1163/1871191X-15101087 SP - 155 TI - Distributed Agency: Foreign policy sans MFA KW - Gibraltar; paradiplomacy; assemblage theory; Grace 1; Iran; Overseas Territories N1 - This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. SN - 1871-191X ID - discovery10081456 AV - public JF - The Hague Journal of Diplomacy EP - 164 N2 - This short provocation argues for a diplomacy studies that is less focused on the rationality of states, with the ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) as an imagined black box in which calculation occurs, and more on the idea of ?external? agency as the emergent effect from a range of elements within and without the state. To illustrate this idea, the essay sketches out an example of foreign policy made in the absence of an MFA entirely: Gibraltar?s 2019 intervention in the Grace 1 controversy. VL - 15 ER -