Diplomacy's Value: Creating Security in 1920s Europe and the Contemporary Middle East

by Brian C. Rathbun

Book Overview

What is the value of diplomacy? How does it affect the course of foreign affairs independent of the distribution of power and foreign policy interests? Theories of international relations too often implicitly reduce the dynamics and outcomes of diplomacy to structural factors rather than the subtle qualities of negotiation. If diplomacy is an independent effect on the conduct of world politics, it has to add value, and we have to be able to show...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801479908
• ISBN13: 9780801479908
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher