The Counter-Revolution in Diplomacy and Other Essays [electronic resource] /
Berridge, G.author.
This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on diplomacy. They challenge the fashionable view that the novel features of contemporary diplomacy are its most important, and use new historical research to explore questions not previously treated in the same systematic manner.
Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Counter-Revolution in Diplomacy; 2 The Origins of the Diplomatic Corps: Rome to Constantinople; 3 Diplomatic Education and Training: The British Tradition; 4 A Political Consul in Nineteenth-Century Armenia; 5 Specific Reciprocity and the 105 Soviet Spies; 6 Home or Away?; 7 Diplomacy after Death; 8 British Ambassadors and their Families in Constantinople; 9 Communicating with the Orient before the Twentieth Century; 10 Wartime Embassies; Appendix; References; Index
Includes index.
This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on diplomacy. They challenge the fashionable view that the novel features of contemporary diplomacy are its most important, and use new historical research to explore questions not previously treated in the same systematic manner.
World politics.
Political science.
International relations.
Diplomacy.
Globalization.
Political History.
Political Science.
International Relations.
Diplomacy.
US Politics.
Globalization.