Diplomacy in Practice av Johan (Free University of Brussels VUB and the Catholic University of Lille UCL) Verbeke

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<P>This book informs students about the practice of modern diplomacy while simultaneously inviting them to critically reflect on it. </P><P>The work introduces the world of diplomacy from a practitioner''s point of view. Rather than listening to what diplomats say they do, the book looks at what they actually do. Diplomacy is thus approached through the lenses of its manifold practices: from political analysis to policy-shaping, from conflict prevention over conflict-management to conflict-resolution. However, the book not only aims at informing or instructing but also, and primarily, wants its readers to critically reflect on diplomacy. It reviews received ideas by posing questions such as: what does ''preventive diplomacy'' really mean?; what is the place of ''transparency'' in diplomatic practice?; why is the relationship between ''law and diplomacy'' ambiguous?; how come that our leaders have such a difficult time in credibly defending ''human rights''?; and why is conducting an ''