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Lars Vissing
Emeritus Researcher
Foreign policy and diplomacy
Bio
Primary research areas
Lars Vissing's research field is European political philosophy and ethnography, state theory and diplomatic history, with a focus on the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Current research
Lars Vissing examines the Machiavelli official correspondence, targeting the state concept and the discursive categories in the chancellery language of the early XVIth century. The background and broader perspective of this line of research remains the History of government routine: information and verbatim versus commentary, analysis and performative discourse.
Featured publications
Book
1986
Chapter
2014
DIIS Working Paper
2017
The cultural factor in European politics and history
DIIS Working Paper
2018
Structure and discursive categories