Schedule

The schedule could very well be subject to change, depending on current events, guest speakers, or group consensus.

Sept. 7

NO CLASSES

Sept. 14: Course Introduction, What is Diplomacy?
  • Berridge, Geoff. “Introduction.” In Diplomacy: Theory and Practice. London: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995.
  • Hamilton, Keith, and Richard Langhorne. “Introduction.” In The Practice of Diplomacy: Its Evolution, Theory, and Administration. London: Routledge, 1995.
Sept. 21: Negotiation and Diplomatic Communication
  • Case Study: Summit of Yalta
  • Berridge, Geoff. “The Art of Negotiation.” In Diplomacy: Theory and Practice. London: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995.
  • Fisher, Roger, and William Ury. “The Method.” In Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving in. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Sept. 28: Diplomacy in Ancient Times
  • Case Study: Near East
  • Westbrook, Raymond. “Babylonian Diplomacy in the Amarna Letters.” Journal of the American Oriental Society: 377-82.
  • Lafont, Bertrand. “International Relations in the Ancient Near East: The Birth of a Complete Diplomatic System.” Diplomacy & Statecraft: 39-60.
  • Hamilton, Keith, and Richard Langhorne. “The Old World.” In The Practice of Diplomacy: Its Evolution, Theory, and Administration. London: Routledge, 1995.
Oct. 5: Foundations of modern diplomacy in the early modern era
  • Chapters 1-3 and 5-6 in Yurdusev, A. Nuri. Ottoman Diplomacy: Conventional or Unconventional? Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • Mattingly, Garrett. “The First Resident Embassies: Medieval Italian Origins of Modern Diplomacy.” Speculum 12, no. 4 (1937): 423-39.
Oct. 12

NO CLASSES

Oct. 19: New Diplomacy after the Congress of Vienna

MIDTERM PARTICIPATION EVALUATIONS
SIMULATION POSITION PAPERS DUE

  • Diplomatic protocol and rules of procedure review for simulation
  • Elrod, Richard B. “The Concert of Europe: A Fresh Look at an International System.” World Politics 28, no. 2 (1976): 159-74.
  • Nicolson, Harold. “The French System.” In The Evolution of Diplomatic Method, Lectures Delivered at the University of Oxford in November 1953. London: Constable, 1954.
Oct. 26

Midterm Simulation : 1923 Treaty of Lausanne Conference

Nov. 2: Bureaucratization, Crisis Diplomacy
Nov. 9: Open

Is there a diplomacy topic (especially touching on WWII and the Cold War era) that you would like to discuss but has not been covered in the syllabus? Suggest a topic for this class.

Nov. 16: Nuclear Diplomacy during the Cold War
  • Case Study: South Africa and the IAEA.
  • Chapter 4 in Hecht, Gabrielle. Entangled Geographies Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
  • Wyk, Jo-Ansie Van. “Nuclear Diplomacy as Niche Diplomacy: South Africa’s Post-apartheid Relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency.” South African Journal of International Affairs: 179-200.
Nov. 23: Public Diplomacy at the turn of the century
  • Case Study: China.
  • Chapters 3, 4, 5 in Hooghe, Ingrid. China’s Public Diplomacy. Brill, 2014.
  • Nye, Joseph S. “Public Diplomacy and Soft Power.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616 (2008): 94-109.
Nov. 30: Economic Diplomacy, the 21st century diplomacy?

END-OF-TERM PARTICIPATION EVALUATION
RESEARCH PAPERS DUE & EVALUATION