At the Second Hague Peace Conference diplomacy was confronted with a market of political information significantly shaped by an international public sphere. The media & civil society wanted to be acknowledged as new participants of international politics. Increasingly they tried to challenge the hitherto existing diplomatic privilege of interpretation. This article analyses the manifold interactions of diplomacy, civil society networks & the public sphere using the newspaper edited specially for the Peace Conference by William T. Stead, the Courrier de la Conference, as an example. The preparations for the Third Hague Conference were to show that an international public sphere & multilateral cooperations had become an essential part of international politics. References.
Auch u. d. T.: Mängel u. Vorzüge d. 12. Abkommens d. 2. Haager Friedenskonfer., als: Staatsrechtl. Sammlung. Bd 4. ; Erlangen, Jur. Diss. v. 8. Juni 1914, Ref. Allfeld. ; Mode of access: Internet.