Diplomacy's Value : Creating Security in 1920s Europe and the Contemporary Middle East / / Brian C. Rathbun.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2014.
©2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Cornell studies in security affairs.
Physical Description:1 online resource :; illustrations.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • The value and values of diplomacy
  • Creating value: a psychological theory of diplomacy
  • Tabling the issue: two Franco-British failures of diplomacy
  • Setting the table: German reassurance, British brokering and French understanding
  • Getting to the table: the diplomatic perils of the exchange of notes
  • Cards on the table: the negotiation of the treaty of mutual guarantee and the spirit of Locarno
  • Turning the tables: reparations, early evacuation and the Hague conference
  • Additional value: the rise and fall of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
  • Searching for Stresemann: the lessons of the 1920s for diplomacy and the Middle East peace process.