Throughout ages, diplomacy has become a increasingly complex and multifaceted activity, calling new, and event past generations of diplomats still acting in this field, to adapt their skills and knowledge to its different dimensions in order to fulfill with more efficiency and effectiveness the wide range of activities attached to it and meet the numereous challenges national diplomatic systems are facing dealing with their domestic affairs and with their international relations.
"Les Mots de la diplomatie", a book by Raoul Decorde, a twenty-year-experienced belgian diplomat, through around hundred entries and words, examines different facets of the diplomatic activity; in doing so, it comes back to classic and contemporary words and concepts of diplomacy such as ambassador, military attaché, archives, capital, megaphon diplomacy, economic diplomacy, ping pong diplomacy, public diplomacy, diplomatic incident, etc. It also comes back to famous figures who influenced the history of diplomacy such as the Marco Polo, Talleyrand, Wallenberg, Henry Kissinger, etc.
Though not very innovative in its content, this book will be informative and useful to those willing an overview of the diplomatic history and practice.
For additional information relating to the terminology used in diplomacy and international relations go to the Diplomatic Dictionary created and managed by DiploFoundation.
