Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, figures and boxes
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Guide to online instructor resources
- Introduction: The origins and changing agendas of international relations
- Part 1 Theories of International Relations
- Part 2 International history
- Part 3 The traditional agenda: States, wars and law
- Chapter 12 The modern state
- Chapter 13 Nations and nationalism
- Chapter 14 Security
- Chapter 15 Arms control and disarmament
- Chapter 16 The ethics and laws of war
- Chapter 17 International law
- Chapter 18 Diplomacy
- Chapter 19 The United Nations
- Part 4 The new agenda: Globalisation and global challenges
- References
- Index
- Figure and text acknowledgements
Chapter 18 - Diplomacy
from Part 3 - The traditional agenda: States, wars and law
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, figures and boxes
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Guide to online instructor resources
- Introduction: The origins and changing agendas of international relations
- Part 1 Theories of International Relations
- Part 2 International history
- Part 3 The traditional agenda: States, wars and law
- Chapter 12 The modern state
- Chapter 13 Nations and nationalism
- Chapter 14 Security
- Chapter 15 Arms control and disarmament
- Chapter 16 The ethics and laws of war
- Chapter 17 International law
- Chapter 18 Diplomacy
- Chapter 19 The United Nations
- Part 4 The new agenda: Globalisation and global challenges
- References
- Index
- Figure and text acknowledgements
Summary
This chapter makes three main arguments. First, ideas and practices of diplomacy have a multi-millennial history – much longer than is generally thought. Second, this long history has been characterised by both continuity and change. As a result, diplomacy has been as much adaptive as resistant to change. And third, that diplomacy is not diminishing in importance. To assess these claims, the chapter first addresses the issue of defining diplomacy, before examining the evolution of diplomacy in terms that may be characterised broadly as pre-modern, modern and postmodern. Finally, the chapter evaluates the relationship between diplomacy and the study of international relations.
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- An Introduction to International Relations , pp. 245 - 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024