2nd Edition

The Practice of Diplomacy Its Evolution, Theory and Administration

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

Practice of Diplomacy has become established as a classic text in the study of diplomacy. This much-needed second edition is completely reworked and updated throughout and builds on the strengths of the original text with a strong empirical and historical focus. Topics new and updated for this edition include: discussion of Ancient and non-European diplomacy including a more thorough... Read more
1. The Old World  2. The Diplomacy of the Renaissance and the Resident Ambassador  3. The Emergence of the ‘Old Diplomacy’  4. The ‘Old Diplomacy’  5. The New Diplomacy  6. Total Diplomacy  7. Global Diplomacy  8. Diplomacy Transformed and Transcended

Biography

Keith Hamilton is an historian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His most recent publication (co-edited with Patrick Salmon) is Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire: Britain and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975 (2009).

Richard Langhorne is Professor of Global Politics at the University of Buckingham and a Full Professor in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, USA. He was formerly Director of Wilton Park, FCO, (1993-1996) and Director of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge University (1987-1993).

`It offers a valuable guide to both the tyro-diplomat and to the student of international relations ... Written in a clear, brisk style, this is a scholarly work.' - Contemporary Review