Reaktion Books, 2010 - 312 p. ISBN10: 1861896964 ISBN13:
9781861896964
In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black investigates how a form of courtly negotiation and information-gathering in the early mode period developed through increasing globalization into a world-shaping force in twenty-first-century politics. The monarchic systems of the sixteenth century gave way to the colonial development of European nations—which in tu were shaken by the revolutions of the eighteenth century—the rise and progression of multiple global interests led to the establishment of the mode-day inteational embassy system. In this detailed and engaging study of the ever-changing role of inteational relations, the aims, achievements, and failures of foreign diplomacy are presented along with their complete historical and cultural background.
In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black investigates how a form of courtly negotiation and information-gathering in the early mode period developed through increasing globalization into a world-shaping force in twenty-first-century politics. The monarchic systems of the sixteenth century gave way to the colonial development of European nations—which in tu were shaken by the revolutions of the eighteenth century—the rise and progression of multiple global interests led to the establishment of the mode-day inteational embassy system. In this detailed and engaging study of the ever-changing role of inteational relations, the aims, achievements, and failures of foreign diplomacy are presented along with their complete historical and cultural background.