Berridge, G: The Counter-Revolution in Diplomacy and Other Essays (gebundenes Buch)

This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on diplomacy. They challenge the fashionable view that the novel features of contemporary diplomacy are its most important, and use new historical research to explore questions not previously treated in the same systematic manner

Brings together for the first time a large collection of the essays (including three new ones and one published for the first time in English) of a leading writer on diplomacyThe title essay, 'The counter-revolution in diplomacy', challenges the fashionable view that the novel features of contemporary diplomacy are its most importantTwo of the new essays, 'Home or away?' and 'Wartime embassies', use fresh historical research to explore questions not previously explored in the same systematic mannerAccessible to both expert and general readers.

G. R. BERRIDGE Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, UK, and Senior Fellow of DiploFoundation. He was for many years general editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Diplomacy series, and Associate Editor for twentieth century diplomatists of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His most recent publication is Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, 4th edition.