【内容简介】
It has become a commonplace to assert that the world of international relations is changing fundamentally.Information and communications technologies have collapsed distance.The revolution in democratic expectations has opened up the foreign policy process to host of new actors empowered by the inportance now attached to wealth.And a single power looms over all the rest,transforming relations of epuality into relations of hierarchy.
【目次】
Author's Preface and Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
The art of negotiation
The personnel
The channels of negotiation
Diplomacy in the states-system
1 Commynes: The Memoirs
2 Machiavelli: Advice to Raffaello Girolami
3 Guicciardini: Ricordi
4 Gentili: Three Books on Embassies
5 Hotman: The Ambassador
6 Bacon: Of Negotiating
7 De Vera: The Perfect Ambassador
8 Grotius: On the Right of Legation
9 Richelieu: Political Testament
10 Wicquefort: The Embassador and his Functions
11 Callires: The Art of Negotiating with Sovereign Princes
12 Bynkershoek: Jurisdiction over Ambassadors
13 Pecquet: Discourse on the Art of Negotiating
14 Vattel: The Law of Nations
Index