description: 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.
language: English
title: Diplomacy: Theory and Practice
titlecomplete: Diplomacy: Theory and Practice
genres: International Relations, Nonfiction, Politics, Academic
ratings_count: 146
publisher: Allandale Online Publishing