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Diplomacy : communication and the origins of international order

Title
Diplomacy : communication and the origins of international order / Robert F. Trager.
Author
Trager, Robert F.
Publication
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  • "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 protégé, 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 détente, 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"--
  • "Diplomacy explains how closed-door conversations create stable orders and violent wars"--
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes
  • Communication in international relations
  • World politics > 20th century
  • World politics
  • Diplomatie
  • Internationaler Konflikt
  • Verhandlung
  • Politische Kommunikation
  • Weltordnung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Can adversaries communicate? ; How perceptions of intentions form -- Part I. Theory. The scope of demands -- Risking a breach ; Balancing allies and adversaries ;Diplomatic approaches -- Part II. Empirical analysis. The fruit of 1912 diplomacy ; How Germany weighed British resolve in 1938-1939 ; Statistical analysis of diplomatic communication ; Creating international orders -- Appendices: Proofs for chapters 3-6 ; Inference data set ; Demands, offers, and assurance dataset ; German inferences prior to World War II.
Call Number
JFE 18-216
ISBN
  • 9781107049161
  • 1107049164
  • 1107627125
  • 9781107627123
LCCN
2017018417
OCLC
989028255
Author
Trager, Robert F., author.
Title
Diplomacy : communication and the origins of international order / Robert F. Trager.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
JFE 18-216
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