This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on diplomacy. They challenge the fashionable view that the novel features of contemporary diplomacy are its most important, and use new historical research to explore questions not previously treated in the same systematic manner

The Counter-Revolution in Diplomacy The Origins of the Diplomatic Corps: Rome to Constantinople Diplomatic Education and Training: The British tradition A Political Consul in Nineteenth Century Armenia Specific Reciprocity and the 105 Soviet Spies Home or Away? Diplomacy after Death British Ambassadors and their Families in Constantinople Communicating with the Orient before the Twentieth Century Wartime Embassies

G. R. BERRIDGE Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, UK, and Senior Fellow of DiploFoundation. He was for many years general editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Diplomacy series, and Associate Editor for twentieth century diplomatists of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His most recent publication is Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, 4th edition.