Innovation in Diplomatic Practice

✍ Scribed by Jan Melissen (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Series: Studies in Diplomacy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The way in which states are dealing with one another has changed more in the past decades than in the 350 years since the Peace of Westphalia. This accessible volume supplements the analyses of more familiar topics in the introductory literature on diplomacy. Experts from nine countries examine some of the ways in which diplomatic practice after 1945 has adapted to fundamental changes in international relations, or is still trying to come to terms with them. This book gives insights into a transforming diplomatic landscape and the changing forms and modalities of contemporary diplomacy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Reflections on the New Global Diplomacy: Statecraft 2500 bc to 2000 ad....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Catalytic Diplomacy: Beyond ‘Newness’ and ‘Decline’....Pages 21-42
The Diplomacy of Revolutionary States....Pages 43-59
The Diplomacy of Reintegration: South Africa Back into the Fold....Pages 60-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The Changing Nature of Diplomatic Negotiation....Pages 79-93
The Influence of Informal Groups in Multilateral Diplomacy....Pages 94-110
Unofficial Intervention: Potential Contributions to Resolving Ethno-national Conflicts....Pages 111-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Monitored Broadcasts and Diplomacy....Pages 135-150
Trends in Diplomatic Signalling....Pages 151-170
Diplomacy in the Age of Information Technology....Pages 171-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
A Bilateral Dialogue Regime: US-Vietnamese Relations after the Fall of Saigon....Pages 195-213
The Role of the Diplomatic Corps: the US-North Korea Talks in Beijing, 1988–94....Pages 214-230
The Substitution of Convential Diplomatic Relations: The Case of Taiwan....Pages 231-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-267

✦ Subjects

International Relations;Diplomacy