Part 1:
The first module is based on Berridge’s acclaimed classic in the field:
Topics covered in DT&P
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The Art of Negotiation
- The Modes Diplomacy
Part 2:
Level II exposure is achieved by asking student to carefully read, annotate and study Barston’sModern Diplomacy textbook:
Topics covered:
- Foreign Policy organization
- Foreign Policy orientation
- Diplomatic Correspondence
- Issues pertaining to technology
- Negotiation
- Diplomatic Styles and Methods
- International Financial Relations
- Trade, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
- Environmental Diplomacy
- Diplomacy and Security
- Diplomacy and Mediation
- Diplomacy of Normalization
- International Treaties and Agreements
Students are asked to pay close attention to samples of correspondence and agreements.
Part 3:
A different approach to the same topic is offered by Dynamics of Diplomacy which is the third required textbook for this course.
Course Objectives:
- Understand what MFAs do and how they work
- Understand the fundamentals of diplomatic negotiations
- Understand bilateral and multilateral diplomacy
- Understand subject-specific diplomacy
- Understand what makes a document a “treaty”
- Be aware of historical cases relevant to various diplomatic methods
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the student is expected to able to:
- Explain the historical origins of diplomacy and protocol
- Explain the fundamentals of diplomatic negotiations
- Discuss the difference between bilateral and multilateral diplomacy
- Discuss subject-specific diplomacy such as Environmental or Human Rights diplomacy
- Explain why binding agreements are essential as the outcome of the diplomat process
- Discuss historical cases relevant to various diplomatic methods
Required Readings and Resources:
– Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (Berridge)
Please consult the web site for updates to the text (http://www.grberridge.co.uk/dip_comp_chps.htm)
– Modern Diplomacy: Third Edition or later (Barston)
– The Dynamics of Diplomacy (Leguey-Feilleux)
– Independent Diplomat (Ross)
– MP3 lecture(s) / podcast(s) (London School of Economics):
+ British Foreign Policy – Challenges facing the next Prime Minister
+ Public Diplomacy – Steps to the Future
+ International Relations in a Post-Hegemonic Age
At: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm
Supplemental Readings and Resources:
– Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower (Kiesling)
– Arts of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy (Freeman)
– Diplomacy for the Next Century (Eban)
– The Practice of Diplomacy (Langhorne)
– The diplomatic corps as an institution of international society (Sharp)
