Offering an alternative and a complement to existing histories of
diplomacy, this book discusses change in the form of 'tipping
points', which it understands as the culmination of long-term
trends. Part I discusses social evolution on the general level of
institutions. It argues that in cases where a diplomatic
institution's tipping points are defined by the types of entities
that make it up, the consular institution has evolved from
concerning polities of independent traders to becoming ever more of
a state concern. Part II challenges the existing literature's
treatment of diplomacy as an elite, textual affair. It lays the
groundwork for studying visual diplomacy and observes that the
increasingly marginal vision of diplomacy as a confrontation
between good and evil survives in popular culture. The book
concludes by identifying the future of diplomacy as a struggle
between state-to-state based diplomacy and diplomacy as networked
global governance. -- .
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