Diplomacy and International Law in Globalized Relations [Paperback]

Diplomacy is transforming and expanding its role as the method of interstate relations to a general instrument of communication among globalized societies. Adapting to globalization, the practice of diplomacy is shared by non-state participants, thus becoming privatized and popularized. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the widening scope of public as well as private diplomacy and its normative framework. It features a practitioners inside view of diplomacy combined with interdisciplinary academic analysis.

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the widening scope of public as well as private diplomacy and its normative framework. It features a practitioners inside view of diplomacy combined with interdisciplinary academic analysis.

Diplomacy is transforming and expanding its role as the method of interstate relations to a general instrument of communication among globalized societies. Adapting to globalization the practice of diplomacy is shared by non-state participants, thus becoming privatized and popularized.

With the strife for common values, the finality of international interactions moves beyond national interest towards communitarianism. International law governing foreign relations can be strengthened through judicial review by national courts.

Working on the interface of diplomacy and academia, this practitioners perspective combines an insider view into innovation and change of the diplomatic process with a concise interdisciplinary academic analysis.

Germany.- Introduction: Practitioners perspective of diplomacy.- Essentials of modern diplomacy.- Diplomacy between statecraft and social science.- Internalization of diplomacy or internationalization of domestic policy.- From national to European Foreign Service.- Symbolism and ritual in multilateral diplomacy.- Flexibility and pragmatism as response to global challenges.- Reciprocity velC.