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• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Boxes
• Preface
• Online Updating
• List of Abbreviations used in Text and Citations
• Introduction
• 1 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• The origins and growth of the MFA
• Staffing and supporting missions abroad
• Policy-making and implementation
• Coordination of foreign relations
• Dealing with foreign diplomats at home
• Building support at home
• Part I: The Art of Negotiation
• Introduction to Part I
• 2 Prenegotiations
• Agreeing the need to negotiate
• Agreeing the agenda
• Agreeing procedure
• 3 ‘Around-the-Table’ Negotiations
• The formula stage
• The details stage
• 4 Diplomatic Momentum
• Deadlines
• Metaphors of movement
• Publicity
• Raising the level of the talks
• 5 Packaging Agreements
• International legal obligations at a premium
• Signalling importance at a premium
• Convenience at a premium
• Saving face at a premium
• 6 Following Up
• Early methods
• Monitoring by experts
• Embassies
• Review meetings
• Part II: Diplomatic Relations
• Introduction to Part II
• 7 Embassies
• The French system of diplomacy
• The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961
• The case for euthanasia
• Representation and friendly relations
• Negotiating and lobbying
• Clarifying intentions
• Political reporting
• Commercial diplomacy
• Versatility and adaptability
• 8 Consulates
• Merchants’ representatives to public servants
• Amalgamation with the diplomatic service
• A separate activity, if not a separate service
• Consular functions
• Career consuls
• Honorary consuls
• Consular sections
• 9 Conferences
• Origins
• International organizations
• Procedure
• 10 Summits
• Origins
• Professional anathemas
• Case for the defence
• 11 Public Diplomacy
• Propaganda about propaganda
• The importance of public diplomacy
• The role of the MFA: player and coordinator
• The role of the embassy
• 12 Telecommunications
• Telephone diplomacy flourishes
• Video-conferencing stalls
• Other means multiply
• Part III: Diplomacy without Diplomatic Relations
• Introduction to Part III
• 13 Disguised Embassies
• Interests sections
• Consulates
• Representative offices
• Front missions
• 14 Special Missions
• The advantages of special missions
• The variety of special missions
• To go secretly or openly?
• 15 Mediation
• The nature of mediation
• Different mediators and different motives
• The ideal mediator
• The ripe moment
• Conclusion: the Counter-Revolution in Diplomatic Practice
• References
• Index