Diplomacy's Value: Creating Security in 1920s Europe and the Contemporary Middle East - Couverture souple

Rathbun, Brian

 
9780801479908: Diplomacy's Value: Creating Security in 1920s Europe and the Contemporary Middle East
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ISBN 10 : 0801479908 ISBN 13 : 9780801479908
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.Drawing on work in the psychology of negotiation, Rathbun explains how diplomatic styles are a function of the psychological attributes of leaders and the party coalitions they represent. The combination of these styles creates a certain spirit of negotiation that facilitates or obstructs agreement. Rathbun applies the argument to relations among France, Germany, and Great Britain during the 1920s as well as Palestinian-Israeli negotiations since the 1990s. His analysis, based on an intensive analysis of primary documents, shows how different diplomatic styles can successfully resolve apparently intractable dilemmas and equally, how they can thwart agreements that were seemingly within reach.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brian C. Rathbun is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans, also from Cornell, and Trust in International Cooperation: International Security Institutions, Domestic Politics, and American Multilateralism.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801479908
ISBN 13 
9780801479908
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780801453182: Diplomacy’s Value: Creating Security in 1920s Europe and the Contemporary Middle East

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ISBN 10 :  0801453186 ISBN 13 :  9780801453182
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2014
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