Diplomacy - Summit, Negotiation, International Relations

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Introduction
Nature and purpose
History of diplomacy
- The ancient world
  - China
  - India
  - Greece
  - Rome
- The Middle Ages
  - Islam
  - Byzantium
  - Diplomacy of the Roman Catholic Church
  - Venice
- The Renaissance to 1815
  - The development of Italian diplomacy
  - The spread of the Italian diplomatic system
  - The development of the foreign ministry and embassies
- The Concert of Europe to the outbreak of World War I
  - Balance of power and the Concert of Europe
  - Conference diplomacy and the impact of democratization
  - The spread of European diplomatic norms
- Diplomacy since World War I
  - The Soviet model
  - The League of Nations and the revival of conference diplomacy
  - Totalitarian regimes
  - Summit diplomacy
  - Decolonization and the beginnings of the Cold War
  - The United Nations and the changing world order
  - New styles of diplomacy
  - The role of women
  - The end of bipolarity
Modern diplomatic practice
- Diplomatic agents
- Rights and privileges
- Credentials
- Diplomatic tasks
- Diplomatic agreements
- Conference diplomacy
- Personnel

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After a lull the tensions of the 1930s revived conference diplomacy, which continued during World War II. Thereafter, summit meetings between heads of government became the norm as technology again quickened the tempo of diplomacy. In the 1930s statesmen began to telephone each other, a practice that was epitomized in the 1960s by the Soviet-American “hot line.” Similarly, the flights of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Germany in 1938, which resulted in the Munich agreement that allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia, started a trend in diplomacy. With airplanes at their disposal, leaders met often in ...(100 of 16604 words)

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