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Diplomacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1993

Alan James
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Chiefly for the wrong reasons, diplomacy has recently made some notable incursions into international relations programmes at British universities. For, in the field of money-spinning taught Master's degrees, this subject has been perceived as a crowd puller. Out there, beyond the European Community with its aggravatingly-low fee levels, are, it is calculated, many who will be attracted by an MA with 'diplomatic' in its title. With some ground, it is believed they see that sort of degree as a passport to a position in the much-sought-after diplomatic ranks. Furthermore, in the same regions lie beginning diplomats who could be said to need some vocational underpinning, not to mention those longer-employed in diplomacy who would benefit in mid-career from intellectual refreshment. The British Statue of Education beckons, its own distinctive torch held high aloft. And, to ensure that its light does not go unnoticed, Vice-Chancellors despatch glossy brochures to the British Council and their recruiting officers, hot foot, to distant parts.

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Review Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 91 - 100
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1993

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References

1 For the same author's examination of the problem in another diplomatic context, see Cohen, Raymond, Culture and Conflict in Egyptian-Israeli Relations. A Dialogue of the Deaf (Bloomington and Indianapolis’ 1990).Google Scholar

2 Wight, Martin, Power Politics, ed. Bull, Hedley and Holbraad, Carsten (Leicester, 1978), p. 113Google Scholar.

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7 For an elaboration of this criticism, see Alan James, ‘International System or Society’, in Review of International Studies (forthcoming); see also his contribution to a Felicitatory Volume for Professor A. P. Rana, ed. H. C. Shukul and Kanti Bajpai (forthcoming).

8 See footnote 2.

9 On the circumstances leading to the Convention, see Langhorne, Richard, ‘The Regulation of Diplomatic Practice: The Beginnings to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations’, Review of International Studies, 18, no. 1 (January 1992)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 For an effort to remedy this situation, see James, Alan, ‘Diplomatic Relations and Contacts’, The British Year Book of International Law 1991 (Oxford 1992)Google Scholar.

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