Suchergebnisse

1. The Value and Values of Diplomacy 1. - 2. Creating Value: A Psychological Theory of Diplomacy 22. - 3. Tabling the Issue: Two Franco-British Negotiations 58. - 4. Setting the Table: German Reassurance, British Brokering, and French Understanding 87. - 5. Getting to the Table: The Diplomatic Perils of the Exchange of Notes 117. - 6. Cards on the Table: The Treaty of Mutual Guarantee and the "Spirit of Locarno" 137. - 7. Turning the Tables: Reparations, Early Evacuation, and the Hague Conference 162. - 8. Additional Value: The Rise and Fall of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process 188. - 9. Searching for Stresemann: The Lessons of the 1920s for Diplomacy and the Middle East Peace Process 236

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 what that value is. In Diplomacy's Value, Brian C. Rathbun sets forth a comprehensive theory of diplomacy, based on his understanding that political leaders have distinct diplomatic styles—coercive bargaining, reasoned dialogue, and pragmatic statecraft.