Diplomacy's Value —— Creating Security in 1920s Europe and the Contemporary Middle East

----- 外交价值：1920年代欧洲与当代中东的安全建立（精装）

ISBN: 9780801453182 出版年：2014 页码：280 Rathbun, Brian C Cornell University Press

What is the value of diplomacy? How does it affect the course of foreign affairs independent of the distribution of power and foreign policy interests? Theories of international relations too often implicitly reduce the dynamics and outcomes of diplomacy to structural factors rather than the subtle qualities of negotiation. If diplomacy is an independent effect on the conduct of world politics, it has to add value, and we have to be able to show what that value is. In Diplomacy Value, Brian C. Rathbun sets forth a comprehensive theory of diplomacy, based on his understanding that political leaders have distinct diplomatic styles鈥攃oercive bargaining, reasoned dialogue, and pragmatic statecraft.