Foreword: The Perpetual Renegotiation of Diplomacy

Richelieu defined the art of diplomacy as that of a "perpetual negotiation," and identified both the strategy and the very form of this discipline. It is not only a continuous activity, but an activity which is continually renegotiated in its most formal and informal aspects. This volume analyses the changing theoretical and practical forms of political, economic and cultural diplomacy from the early modern era to the questioning of the Westphalian system in the 20th and the 21st centuries. I..