Keith Hamilton is an historian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His most recent publication (co-edited with Patrick Salmon) is Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire: Britain and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975 (2009).Richard Langhorne is Professor of Global Politics at the University of Buckingham and a Full Professor in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, USA. He was formerly Director of Wilton Park, FCO, (1993-1996) and Director of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge University (1987-1993).

• 1. The Old World  2. The Diplomacy of the Renaissance and the Resident Ambassador  3. The Emergence of the ‘Old Diplomacy’  4. The ‘Old Diplomacy’  5. The New Diplomacy  6. Total Diplomacy  7. Global Diplomacy  8. Diplomacy Transformed and Transcended

`It offers a valuable guide to both the tyro-diplomat and to the student of international relations ... Written in a clear, brisk style, this is a scholarly work.' - Contemporary Review

Keith Hamilton is an historian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His most recent publication (co-edited with Patrick Salmon) is Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire: Britain and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975 (2009).Richard Langhorne is Professor of Global Politics at the University of Buckingham and a Full Professor in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, USA. He was formerly Director of Wilton Park, FCO, (1993-1996) and Director of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge University (1987-1993).

• 1. The Old World  2. The Diplomacy of the Renaissance and the Resident Ambassador  3. The Emergence of the ‘Old Diplomacy’  4. The ‘Old Diplomacy’  5. The New Diplomacy  6. Total Diplomacy  7. Global Diplomacy  8. Diplomacy Transformed and Transcended

`It offers a valuable guide to both the tyro-diplomat and to the student of international relations ... Written in a clear, brisk style, this is a scholarly work.' - Contemporary Review

Keith Hamilton is an historian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His most recent publication (co-edited with Patrick Salmon) is Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire: Britain and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975 (2009).Richard Langhorne is Professor of Global Politics at the University of Buckingham and a Full Professor in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, USA. He was formerly Director of Wilton Park, FCO, (1993-1996) and Director of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge University (1987-1993).

• 1. The Old World  2. The Diplomacy of the Renaissance and the Resident Ambassador  3. The Emergence of the ‘Old Diplomacy’  4. The ‘Old Diplomacy’  5. The New Diplomacy  6. Total Diplomacy  7. Global Diplomacy  8. Diplomacy Transformed and Transcended

`It offers a valuable guide to both the tyro-diplomat and to the student of international relations ... Written in a clear, brisk style, this is a scholarly work.' - Contemporary Review