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Preface
1 P. G. Wodehouse, Hot Water (London, 2008 edn), pp. 15–16, 27.
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Introduction
1 A-M. Juvaini, Genghis Khan: The History of the World-Conqueror, ed. J. A. Boyle (2nd edn, Manchester, 1997), p. 80.
2 E. Satow, A Guide to Diplomatic Practice (London, 1917), p. 1.
3 H. Nicolson, Diplomacy (Oxford, 1963), pp. 3–4.
4 P. Barber, Diplomacy (London, 1979), p. 6.
5 J. Der Derian, ‘Mediating Estrangement: A Theory for Diplomacy’, Review of International Studies, 13 (1987), p. 9.
6 J.C.E. Gienow-Hecht, Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945–1955 (Baton Rouge, LA, 1999); R. T. Arndt, The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (Dulles, VA, 2005). This section was written soon after walking past ‘The Texas Embassy’ in London, a restaurant.
7 T. W. Zeiler, Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire (Lanham, MD, 2006). See also B. J. Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s (Cambridge, MA, 2006).
8 L. B. Fritzinger, Diplomat without Portfolio: Valentine Chirol, His Life, and ‘The Times’ (London, 2006).
9 The Times, 24 July 2009, p. 18.
10 Ten O’Clock News, BBC 1, 15 October 2009.
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12 F. Adams, Dollar Diplomacy: United States Economic Assistance to Latin America (Aldershot, 2000).
13 P. Y. Beaurepaire, Le mythe de l’Europe française au XVIIIe siècle: Diplomatie, culture et sociabilités au temps des Lumières (Paris, 2007).
14 For diplomats as negotiators, intelligence sources and cultural contacts, M. J. Levin, Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Ithaca, NY, 2005); P. M. Drover, ‘Letters, Notes and Whispers: Diplomacy, Ambassadors and Information in the Italian Renaissance Princely State’, PhD thesis, Yale, 2002.
15 Reporting Cardinal Fleury, French first minister, John Burnaby, private secretary to James, Earl Waldegrave, British envoy in Paris, to Horatio Walpole, envoy in the Hague, 1 February 1735, NA. SP. 84/341 fols 56–7.
16 P. Jackson, France and the Nazi Menace: Intelligence and Policy Making, 1933–1939 (Oxford, 2000).
17 E. W. Nelson, ‘The Origins of Modern Balance of Power Politics’, Medievalia et Humanistica, I (1943), pp. 124–42.
18 Herodotus, The Histories, Book VII, 131–2. Trans. for the Loeb edition by A. D. Godley (1922).
19 R. Cohen and R. Westbrook, eds, Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations (Baltimore, MD, 2000), p. 173.
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22 A. Eckstein, Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome (Berkeley, CA, 2006) is the key work, esp. pp. 58–65.
23 Translation of word sometimes given as the Barbarians.
24 Plutarch, Life of Sulla, 5, 4–5; from Six Lives by Plutarch trans. R. Warner, Fall of the Roman Republic (London, 1958), p. 61.
25 W. Treadgold, ‘The Diplomatic Career and Historical Work of Olympiodorus of Thebes’, International History Review, XXVI (2004), p. 714.
26 F. A. Wright, ed., Liudprand of Cremona: The Embassy to Constantinople and Other Writings (London, 1930).
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29 For a flavour from the Renaissance, M. J. Haren, ed., Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, XVIII: Pius III and Julius II: Vatican Registers, 1503–13, Lateran Registers, 1503–1508 (Dublin, 1989).
30 A. D. Beihammer, M. G. Parani and C. D. Schabel, eds, Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean: Aspects of Cross-cultural Communication (Leiden, 2008).
31 D. Berg, M. Kintzinger and P. Monnet, eds, Auswärtige Politik und internationale Beziehungen im Mittelalter (...