Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, Second Edition
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The series was launched in 1994. Its chief purpose is to encourage original scholarship on the theory and practice of international diplomancy, including its legal regulation. The interests of the series thus embrace such diplomatic functions as signalling, negotiation and consular work, and methods such as summitry and the multilateral conference. Whilst it has a sharp focus on diplomacy at the expense of foreign policy, therefore, the series has no prejudice as to historical period or approach. It also aims to include manuals on protocol and other aspects of diplomatic practice which will be of immediate, day-to-day relevance to professional diplomats. A final ambition is to reprint inaccessible classic works on diplomacy. This book deals comprehensively with diplomacy narrowly conceived, that is, as the conduct of relations between sovereign states through the medium of officials based at home or abroad. It is not, like some, a book on 'diplomacy;' nor is it, like others, a book on the British Diplomatic Service disguised as a book on diplomacy in general. It is a book on the processes and procedures of the diplomatic art that focuses chiefly on the recent past but is rooted in history, and it draws on evidence and examples from across the world. It is the only general textbook on diplomacy that has a major emphasis on negotiation (the most important function of diplomats), as well as a major chapter on unconventional diplomatic methods.
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This ebook is about the art of diplomacy, the conduct of international relations by negotiation rather than by force or recourse to law. A long introduction analyses the chief characteristics of the system of diplomacy which emerged in Europe at the end of the Middle Ages, while the bulk of the book is chiefly concerned with the impact on this system of developments in the twentieth century. The first Part deals with the principal and sometimes overlapping modes of contemporary diplomacy: bilateral, multilateral, summit diplomacy, and mediation. It also includes a detailed political analysis of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961), the full text of which is reproduced as an Appendix. The second Part deals with the art of negotiation, and is substantially organised around the concept of stages of negotiation: pre-negotiations, the formula stage, and the details stage. Unusually for this kind of text, this Part also gives considerable space to the questions of how diplomatic momentum is maintained (looking, for example, at the use of metaphors of movement) and how any final agreements are 'packaged'. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for further reading.
Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, Second Edition
Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, Second Edition,G. R. Berridge,Palgrave Macmillan,0333969294,Diplomacy,International Relations - General,Political Freedom & Security - International Secur,Political Process - Leadership,Political Science,Politics - Current Events,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Political Science / Leadership
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