Diplomacy
Diplomacy is the practice of influencing the decisions and conduct of foreign governments or organizations through dialogue, negotiation, and other nonviolent means. Diplomacy usually refers to international relations carried out through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to a variety of issues and topics.Diplomacy is the main instrument of foreign policy, which represents the broader goals and strategies that guide a state's interactions with the rest of the world. International treaties, agreements, alliances, and other manifestations of foreign policy are usually the result of diplomatic negotiations and processes. Diplomats may also help shape a state's foreign policy by advising …
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1 January 2017 English
“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …
exchange was an important component in British diplomacy, and all annual country reviews specified achievements …
1 January 2017 English
The Cold War in Europe was intertwined with the Second World War in a rather circular fashion. The East/West conflict arose from the circumstances of the end of the world …
eds., The CSCE and the End of the Cold War: Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972–1990 (New York: … the Soviet Union into the coin of international diplomacy and prestige.”8 The centerpiece of Brezhnev’s …
1 January 2017 English
In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …
Szalontai Department of Korean Unification, Diplomacy and Security, Korea University, Sejong City, Republic …
1 January 2017 English
We will focus here on how British and U.S. officials assessed the prospects of Sino-Soviet relations, why they were of the opinion that NATO benefited from the Sino-Soviet and Soviet-Albanian …
Szalontai Department of Korean Unification, Diplomacy and Security, Korea University, Sejong City, …
UCL: University College London · 1 January 2017 English
In the Cold War Eastern Europe collection, historians have an invitation to explore the variety and complexity of the cultural Cold War. The explosion in cultural traffic across the Iron …
Mark C. Donfried, eds., Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010), 15 … comes up time and again in the records. Cultural diplomacy was an expensive business, especially in the … M. Lee, “British Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War: 1946–61,” Diplomacy & Statecraft 9, no. 1 (1998): … Western powers and their implications for cultural diplomacy were a further cause for concern. Would British … shift in attitudes and approach to cultural diplomacy over the crucial years covered in module I, 1953–60 …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 1 January 2017 English
As well as heralding a series of momentous changes within Soviet domestic politics and society, the death of Stalin on March 5, 1953 also brought forward important shifts of tone …
United States on a central question of East–West diplomacy; several stormy Cabinet 6 See James Cable, The … Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy (London: Yale University Press, 2002). 4 See …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
failed to achieve has now been given to British diplomacy to tackle. The British government is the one …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents relating to anniversaries and commemorations in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include plans for the sixtieth anniversary of the Soviet Union; analysis of …
International Information Department and Soviet Agitprop Diplomacy. I also enclose an analysis prepared by the U … CPSU Central Committee's IID and Soviet Agitprop Diplomacy IN ITS FOUR YEARS OF "EXISTENCE, THE CPSU'S … FOREIGN POLICY FIELD. SHIFT IN.LOCUS.OF AGITPROP DIPLOMACY IN ANY EVENT, AS SOVIET-AMERICAN CONTACTS DECREASED …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
impossible dream. The West objects to "light switch" diplomacy (confusing voting patterns at the UN, a clamour … But this is an example of the "light switch" diplomacy that is so resented. Few commercial enterprises …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of documents concerning Anglo-Czechoslovak political relations. Subjects discussed in the file include the settlement of British financial claims against Czechoslovakia; the return of wartime gold to Czechoslovakia; Anglo-Czechoslovak …
the forum of the United Nations, Czechoslovak diplomacy consistently supported all Soviet peace initia- … the other socialist countries. Czechoslovak diplomacy also has made important pro- posals aimed at strengthening …
