There are countless Diplomacy courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- Diplomacy (Touchstone Book) (1995)
- Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the US Foreign Service (2017)
- The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford Handbooks) (2015)
- American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition (Walgreen Foundation Lectures) (2012)
- The Art of The Possible: Documents On Great Power Diplomacy, 1814 – 1914 (1996)
- Diplomacy in a Globalizing World (2017)
- Face-to-Face Diplomacy: Social Neuroscience and International Relations (2019)
- Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (2015)
- Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World (2012)
- Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (2010)
- Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues (2012)
- Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age (Contemporary Political Communication) (2019)
- The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (50th Anniversary Edition) (2009)
Diplomacy (Touchstone Book) (1995)
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China.The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.
Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the US Foreign Service (2017)
Career Diplomacy is an insider’s guide to the Foreign Service as an institution, a profession, and a career.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford Handbooks) (2015)
At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Diplomacy remains a salient activity in today's world in which the basic authoritative actor is still the state.
American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition (Walgreen Foundation Lectures) (2012)
For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan’s American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy.
The Art of The Possible: Documents On Great Power Diplomacy, 1814 – 1914 (1996)
An anthology for courses dealing with great power diplomacy in the 19th century, this book raises crucial questions in the history of European foreign relations and seeks to address those questions through excerpts from the documentary record. Included are sources from conference protocol, and treaties as well as from previously untapped sources such as speeches, diary entries, and correspondence. Half the documents included have been translated into English for the first time.
Diplomacy in a Globalizing World (2017)
In Diplomacy in a Globalizing World: Theories and Practices, Second Edition, twenty-three respected scholars contribute to the debate about the changing nature of contemporary diplomacy and its future theoretical and practical directions.
Face-to-Face Diplomacy: Social Neuroscience and International Relations (2019)
Face-to-face diplomacy has long been the lynchpin of world politics, yet it is largely dismissed by scholars of International Relations as unimportant. Marcus Holmes argues that dismissing this type of diplomacy is in stark contrast to what leaders and policy makers deem as essential and that this view is rooted in a particular set of assumptions that see an individual’s intentions as fundamentally inaccessible.
Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (2015)
Fully revised and updated, this comprehensive guide to diplomacy explores the art of negotiating international agreements and the channels through which such activities occur when states are in diplomatic relations, and when they are not. This new edition includes chapters on secret intelligence and economic and commercial diplomacy.
Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World (2012)
What are the crucial elements of a strong Global Politics program? This is the question we posed to instructors around the country. The answer: and . These constitute the foundation of Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World. This contemporary presentation stresses the importance of global events and offers students a number of lenses through which to view the world around them.
Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (2010)
Diplomacy, widely recognized as the standard textbook on its subject and already translated into six languages, has been comprehensively updated, reorganized and greatly expanded. There are new chapters on consuls, public diplomacy, special envoys, and how agreements are best followed up, the last featuring a close look at no torture agreements.
Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues (2012)
Developed specifically for international development students from diverse backgrounds, Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues is renowned for providing a common theoretical toolkit that is accessible to students who may be encountering post-modernism and post-colonialism for the first time.
Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age (Contemporary Political Communication) (2019)
New technologies have opened up fresh possibilities for public diplomacy, but this has not erased the importance of history. On the contrary, the lessons of the past seem more relevant than ever, in an age in which communications play an unprecedented role. Whether communications are electronic or hand-delivered, the foundations remain as valid today as they ever have been.
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (50th Anniversary Edition) (2009)
“A brilliant book on foreign affairs.”―Adolf A. Berle Jr., New York Times Book Review This incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that shed light on the tensions of the Cold War and the deeper impulses leading to the American intervention in Vietnam.
Best Diplomacy Books You Should Read
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North of Havana: The Untold Story of Dirty Politics, Secret Diplomacy, and the Trial of the Cuban Five
Author(s): Martin Garbus
ID: 2446291, Publisher: The New Press, Year: 4 Jun 2019, Size: 7 Mb, Format: epub
The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Author(s): Cindy Ermus
ID: 3524101, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2023, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Science, Technology and Innovation Diplomacy in Developing Countries: Perceptions and Practice
Author(s): Venugopalan Ittekkot, Jasmeet Kaur Baweja
ID: 3588649, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2023, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are truly best-sellers according to Washington Post, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.