Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-356) and index.
Diplomacy in history -- Who are the diplomats and how do they operate? -- The institutions of bilateral diplomacy : precedence, protocol, ministries, embassies -- The institutions of multilateral diplomacy -- Regional diplomacy and the gs. the rise of summitry -- Negotiations -- Public diplomacy -- Public goods: treaties and international law -- The new diplomatic agenda: the challenges for diplomatic reform -- The non-state actors: global citizens and global diplomacy -- The continuing information and communication revolution?awaiting the response -- Of diplomacy -- Diplomacy in 2025 -- Diplomacy for the ages -- Ideas to raise diplomacy's batting average.
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Making Diplomacy Work: Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World is a critical and comprehensive survey of how diplomacy works. While most discussions of diplomatic reform stop short of proposing concrete ideas to make diplomacy work better, this text suggests doable initiatives that could make diplomacy more versatile, more attuned to modern realities, and more capable of confronting the shared problems that no state can solve on its own. It takes a fresh look at the practice of diplomacy, sets its achievements and failures in a contemporary context, and analyzes the major factors that have changed the way it is conducted. The book is built on the premise that diplomacy must adapt some of its ritualistic and stale procedures to become more effective in the modern ...
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