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Diplomacy has been characterized as “the master-institution”1 or, more prosaically, as “the engine room” of international relations.2 Yet diplomacy has received surprisingly little attention among political scientists specializing in international relations. Indeed, diplomacy has been “particularly resistant to theory.”3
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Jönsson, C., Hall, M. (2005). Introduction. In: Essence of Diplomacy. Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511040_1
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