PREFACE - Jovan Kurbalija

The Mediterranean Academy of Diplomacy has recently organised two international conferences addressing the future of diplomacy. The first was the International Conference on Information Technology and Diplomacy (May 1997) and the second was the International Conference on Modern Diplomacy (February 1998). The papers featured in this volume were presented at these conferences. The contributors are professors, diplomats and officials involved in international relations, coming from a wide variety of countries.

1. OPENING ADRESS by George Vella
2. DIPLOMACY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF GOOD GOVERNANCE by Vladimir Petrovski
3. DIPLOMACY OF TOMORROW: NEW DEVELOPMENTS, NEW METHODS, NEW TOOLS by Dietrich Kappeler
4. DEVELOPMENTS IN PROTOCOL by Erik Goldstein
5. WHO NEEDS DIPLOMATS? THE PROBLEM OF DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION by Paul Sharp
6. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY by Pamela H. Smith
7. THE ROLE OF THE LEGAL ADVISER IN MODERN DIPLOMATIC SERVICES by Stanko Nick
8. FROM PARALLEL TO DUAL CAREERS: DIPLOMATIC SPOUSES IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT by Annabel Hendry
9. HISTORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF DIPLOMACY by Richard Langhorne
10. THE YUGOSLAV DIPLOMAATIC SERVICE UNDER SANCTIONS by Milan Mitic
11. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICAN DIPLOMACY by Marie Muller
12. A DIPLOMATIC ANALOGY: INTERNATIONAL FUNCTIONARIES AND THEIR PRIVILEGES by Linda S. Frey and Marsha Frey
13. THE WANING OF THE STATE AND THE WAXING OF CYBERWORLD by Richard Falk
14. THE INTERNET AND DIPLOMATS OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY: HOW NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AFFECT THE ORDINARY WORK OF DIPLOMATS by Stefano Baldi
15. CONCLUSION

Please send your comments to jovank@diplomacy.edu. This document was updated 31/08/98.