For this Second Edition, Modern Diplomacy has been extensively updated and expanded to take in not only important changes in diplomacy, but also several new chapters. These cover environmental diplomacy, mediation, the process of normalisation and case examples of environmental negotiations and international agreements.
Papers presented at the 5th Asian Security Conference organized by Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses; New Delhi, India
Bilateral diplomacy is a multi-dimensional effort covering the conceptual as well as functional aspects of foriegn relations. It is a serious reference book on diplomacy for the diplomat, the scholar and the media analyst, and most importantly for young students of international relations
Rein Müllerson defines human rights diplomacy as the use of foreign policy instruments in order to promote human rights, as well as the use of human rights issues for the sake of other foreign policy aims. The book covers topics such as the relation between human rights and international stability; the conundrum of cultural relativism; the use of force to settle human rights issues; and how vi…
This new series publishes theoretically challenging and empirically authoritative studies of the traditions, functions, paradigms and institutions of modern diplomacy. Taking a comparative approach, the New Diplomacy Studies series aims to advance research on international diplomacy, publishing innovative accounts of how 'old' and 'new' diplomats help steer international conduct between anarchy…
Zhang Deyi (1847-1919) went on a number of missions to the West, first as an interpreter, then a diplomat, and finally as the Qing's ambassador to Britain. Throughout his travels overseas he kept a detailed diary covering all aspects of the Western World: diplomatic activities, schooling, marriage, fire engines and contraceptives. His diaries comprise eight volumes in total. This is the transla…
After the successful conclusion of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012 as well as the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2013, Chinese diplomacy has stepped into a new phrase under the guidance of the new core leadership of China. With many achievements, China focuses on long-term interests and strategic overal…
This scholarly work underscores the central role of diplomacy in the process of building the Brazilian nation-state. It also reveals how diplomacy helped to preserve the integrity of a land with continental dimensions, and peacefully settle the country’s borders with ten neighboring countries – among which were two European powers. The challenges of maintaining unity against a background of…
Diplomatic Interventions argues that war is a social construction. In so doing, it unsettles the definition of intervention, as a coercive interference by one state in the affairs of another, to examine the range of communicative or 'diplomatic' practices which through their presence modify the experience of war. The tension between claims that war is pervasive and that war is a social construc…
The book is an attempt to analyse recent trends in the nuclear non-proliferation diplomacy after the Gulf crisis, with a focus on efforts to strengthen the nuclear export control regime, IAEA 'Special Inspections hased on satellite intelligence, and US policy of establishing regional nuclear nonproliferation regimes. An attempt has been made to examine how the nuclear nonproliferation regime ha…