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“Old Diplomacy” is not really that old: it dates from the Renaissance in Europe and lasted to the end of the nineteenth century. Its strengths were its preservation of order and peace; its code of conduct; and its capacity for self-regulation. Its weakness was its generally closed, opaque nature. Its eclipse after the First World War was some time in coming—about thirty years—yet many of its ways and attitudes persist today.
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Weisbrode, K. (2014). Old-Old Diplomacy. In: Old Diplomacy Revisited: A Study in the Modern History of Diplomatic Transformations. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137393081_2
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