Positive Diplomacy [Paperback]

Positive Diplomacy draws on the author's experience from his distinguished diplomatic career in the Foreign Service and his lectures at the Diplomatic Academy of London for those contemplating, or at the outset of, a diplomatic career. Its focus is eminently practical. It concentrates on how junior diplomats can assist in making and carrying out foreign policy. It analyses what diplomats have to deal with and the skills they need to operate effectively as individuals and as members of a diplomatic service.Preface Foreword; J.E.Spence Introduction: Action as the End Object of Diplomacy The Evolution of Diplomacy in Response to Rapid Change and Growing Interdependence The Nature of International Society Today National Sovereignty and Its Limits The United Nations The World Economy European Architecture Foreign Policy-making Diplomatic Service Organisation The Acquisition of Diplomatic Skills: Drafting Advocacy and the Written Word A Diplomat's Decade Annexes Notes Bibliography Index 

`Positive Diplomacy is far more than a manual of instruction: wit and elegance happily inform a superb analysis. Aspiring diplomats, current practitioners and their political masters and those who seek to understand international relations will read it with profit and pleasure.' - J. E. Spence, Associate Fellow and former Director of Studies, Royal Institute of International Affairs

`This excellent book . . . Earlier classics such as Nicolson's Diplomacy are now hopelessly out of date and new authoritative guidance to the subject was badly needed. Positive Diplomacy, which draws on a lifetime of diplomatic experience, fills the gap admirably.' - Margaret Doxey, International Journal of Canadian Institute of International Affairs

`Marshall's discussion of the place of the United Nations in international diplomacy is a characteristic mixture of common sense, penetrating insight and humour . . . the central message is serious: diplomacy calã#