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diplomacy
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Introduction
Nature and purpose
History of diplomacy
The ancient world
China
India
Greece
Rome
The Middle Ages
Islam
Byzantium
Diplomacy of the Roman Catholic Church
Venice
The Renaissance to 1815
The development of Italian diplomacy
The spread of the Italian diplomatic system
The development of the foreign ministry and embassies
The Concert of Europe to the outbreak of World War I
Balance of power and the Concert of Europe
Conference diplomacy and the impact of democratization
The spread of European diplomatic norms
Diplomacy since World War I
The Soviet model
The League of Nations and the revival of conference diplomacy
Totalitarian regimes
Summit diplomacy
Decolonization and the beginnings of the Cold War
The United Nations and the changing world order
New styles of diplomacy
The role of women
The end of bipolarity
Modern diplomatic practice
Diplomatic agents
Rights and privileges
Credentials
Diplomatic tasks
Diplomatic agreements
Conference diplomacy
Personnel
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Witness Jacques de Baenst at his trade as the director of protocol (1998–2010) at the European Union
A profile of Jacques de Baenst, director of protocol (1998–2010) at the European...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail EmDee
Learn how diplomats recruit students for the Department of State and work with ambassadors
Job description of a diplomat.
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Images
Taking prisoners
A larger-than-life Ramses II towering over his prisoners and clutching them by the...
Egyptian Museum, Cairo; photograph, O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic Image Collection
Zhuang Zhou
Taoist master Zhuang Zhou, commonly known as Zhuangzi (“Master Zhuang”), detail,...
Courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Republic of China
Kautilya
Statue of the Indian statesman and philosopher Kautilya, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India....
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Hermes
Hermes bearing a caduceus, Roman copy, c. 1st century ce,...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli, oil painting by Santi di Tito; in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
Mondadori Portfolio/age fotostock
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, detail of a painting by Sampson Strong, 1526; in Christ Church,...
Courtesy of the Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius, detail of a portrait by Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt; in the Rijksmuseum,...
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Cardinal Richelieu
Full-length portrait of Cardinal Richelieu, French prelate and statesman, 19th century....
© Photos.com/Getty Images
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, detail of a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence;...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference
Britain's David Lloyd George, Italy's Vittorio Orlando, France's Georges Clemenceau,...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
League of Nations
Delegates attending a League of Nations meeting, c. 1930.
Central Press/Hulton Archives/Getty Images
Munich Agreement: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Neville Chamberlain
(From left) Italian leader Benito Mussolini, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, a German...
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Bild 146-1970-052-24
United Nations headquarters
United Nations headquarters (building on left), New York, New York.
© Mario Savoia/Shutterstock.com
Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Ahtisaari, 2015.
Mark Garten/UN Photos
Kofi Annan
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, 1998.
John Isaac/UN Photo
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger, 1973.
U.S. Department of State
Franklin at the court of France
Benjamin Franklin at the court of France, 1778, engraving after a painting by Hobens.
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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