Diplomacy : communication and the origins of international order
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Diplomacy : communication and the origins of international order
Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How do adversaries communicate? How do diplomatic encounters shape international orders and determine whether states go to war? Diplomacy, from alliance politics to nuclear brinkmanship, almost always operates through a few forms of signaling: choosing the scope of demands on another state, risking a breach in relations, encouraging a protege, staking one's reputation, or making a diplomatic approach all convey specific sorts of information. Through rich history and analyses of diplomatic network data from the Confidential Print of the British Empire, Trager demonstrates the lasting effects that diplomatic encounters have on international affairs. The Concert of Europe, the perceptions of existential threat that formed before the World Wars, the reduction in Cold War tensions known as detente, and the institutional structure of the current world order were all products of inferences about intentions drawn from the statements of individuals represented as the will of states. Diplomacy explains how closed-door conversations create stable orders and violent wars.
Table of Contents
- 1. Can adversaries communicate?
- 2. How perceptions of intentions form
- Part I. Theory: 3. The scope of demands
- 4. Risking a breach
- 5. Balancing allies and adversaries
- 6. Diplomatic approaches
- Part II. Empirical Analysis: 7. The fruit of 1912 diplomacy
- 8. How Germany weighed British resolve in 1938-9
- 9. Statistical analysis of diplomatic communication
- 10. Creating international orders
- Appendices: A. Proofs for chapters 3-6
- B. Inference data set
- C. Threats, offers, and assurance dataset
- D. German inferences prior to World War II.
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