History of diplomacy
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[Podcast] Diplomacy between tradition and innovation
25 November 2021
Diplomacy · Diplomacy between tradition and innovation [An interview with Ambassador Stefano Baldi] In January 2021, Diplo began a series of online discussions titled History of Diplomacy and Technology, led b...
[New podcast] The telegraph and diplomacy: An interview with Tom Standage
19 August 2021
Foreign policy, History of diplomacy, History of diplomacy and technology
In January 2021, Diplo began a series of online discussions titled History of Diplomacy and Technology led by Dr Jovan Kurbalija. As part of the series, Kurbalija interviewed journalist and author Tom Standage to ta...
[Podcast] Soft and hard power of Byzantine diplomacy
07 June 2021
An interview with Prof. Jonathan Shepard Diplomacy · Soft and hard power of Byzantine diplomacy [Interview with Prof. Jonathan Shepard] In January 2021, Diplo began a series of online discussions titled History...
[Podcast] The history of drinks and diplomacy: An interview with Tom Standage
05 April 2021
Diplomacy · A history of drinks and diplomacy: An interview with Tom Standage In January 2021, Diplo began a series of online discussions titled History of Diplomacy and Technology led by Dr Jovan Kurbalija...
Training and courses
Events
Learning from the past, looking to the future [A historical journey #11]
21 Dec 21 - 21 Dec 21
#Diplomacy: Internet and social media [A historical journey #10]
25 Nov 21 - 25 Nov 21
Telephone diplomacy: Dialling the ‘red line’ [A historical journey #8]
30 Sep 21 - 30 Sep 21
Renaissance diplomacy: Compromise as a solution to conflict [A historical journey #6]
24 Jun 21 - 24 Jun 21
Online
Ancient Greek diplomacy: Politics, new tools, and negotiation [A historical journey #4]
29 Apr 21 - 29 Apr 21
Online
Prehistory: The birth of diplomacy and early ‘technologies’ [A historical journey #2]
25 Feb 21 - 25 Feb 21
Online
[Webinar-2014] Diplomacy and the invention of telephony and wireless communication
01 Oct 14 - 01 Oct 14
Online
[Webinar-2013] Diplomacy and the invention of telephony and wireless communication
26 Jul 13 - 26 Jul 13
Online
Resources
2021
Searching for the prehistoric origins of diplomacy
What if diplomacy had started in the first contact between two distinct bands of nomadic Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers in the Palaeolithic period, even before the advent of agriculture and the transition from nomadism to Neolithic sedentary societies? In this post, pre... Read more...
2020
The ‘Working’ Non-Aligned Movement: Between Belgrade, Cairo, and Baku – The NAM’s Leadership Visibility
The objective of this chapter is to highlight lessons learned, promote best practices, and carry takeaways that are useful for other levels of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), or even other forums. ... Read more...
2019
Diplomacy and Secret Service
Intelligence officers working under diplomatic protection are rarely out of the news for long, and the last two years have been no exception. How did the relationship between diplomacy and secret intelligence come about? What was the impact on it of the bureaucratizati... Read more...
2018
The Diplomacy of Ancient Greece – A Short Introduction
Employed against a warlike background, the diplomatic methods of the ancient Greeks are thought by some to have been useless but by others to have been the most advanced seen prior to modern times.... Read more...
2017
Room for Diplomacy: The history of Britain’s diplomatic buildings overseas, 1800-2000
Mark Bertram joined the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works after reading architecture at Cambridge and remained in the civil service as architect, project manager, administrator, estate manager and – in his own words – ‘quasi diplomat’ for the next thirty y... Read more...
2017
The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919
This is an original work, meticulously researched, rich in detail, and written in a clear and – here and there – refreshingly pungent style. Soroka is a Russian scholar but at ease in English.... Read more...
2017
Curing the Sick Man: Sir Henry Bulwer and the Ottoman Empire, 1858-1865
This is the first book of a very promising young historian. Laurence Guymer, who is head of the Department of History at Winchester College and a research associate in the School of History at the University of East Anglia, has produced a biography of Sir Henry Bulwer ... Read more...
2015
A Diplomatic Whistleblower in the Victorian Era
It’s not often that a fascinating and important new book — in this case about an accomplished diplomat, journalist, whistle-blower, novelist, dissembler and controversial celebrity of Victorian times — is made available, totally free of charge, to anyone with a c... Read more...
