Week One

The Origins of Diplomacy

Discussion Questions

If diplomacy is a form of communication, then what distinguishes it from other forms of communication?

Under what sorts of conditions is diplomacy, as a mode of communicating, likely to prosper, and under what sort of conditions is it likely to decline?

Readings

• Cohen R. and Westbrook R. (eds.) (2000), Amarna Diplomacy ( Johns Hopkins: Washington)
• Nicolson, H. (1954), The Evolution of the Diplomatic Method (Constable,: London)
• Mattingley, G. (1965), Renaissance Diplomacy, (Penguin: Harmondsworth)
• Callières, F. de (1983), The Art of Diplomacy, ed. by H. M. A. Keens-Soper and K. Schweizer (Leicester University Press: Leicester)

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