Ebook: Diplomacy: A Very Short Introduction

Preface; List of illustrations; 1 Evolution of diplomacy; 2 Diplomacy of the American Revolution; 3 Diplomatic origins of the Great War and Versailles; 4 The night Stalin and Churchill divided Europe; 5 The ANZUS Treaty; 6 Diplomacy in the age of globalization; References and further reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; y.;Like making war, diplomacy has been around a very long time, at least since the Bronze Age. It was primitive by today's standards, there were few rules, but it was a recognizable form of diplomacy. Since then, diplomacy has evolved greatly, coming to mean different things, to different persons, at different times, ranging from the elegant to the inelegant. Whatever one's definition, few could doubt that the course and consequences of the major events of modern internationaldiplomacy have shaped and changed the global world in which we live. Joseph M. Siracusa introduces the subject of diplomac.