This collection of essays examines the diplomatic corps as an institution of international society. Contributors include both leading scholars from the field of diplomatic studies, serving diplomats, and scholar-diplomats. The central argument of the volume is that the diplomatic corps provides one of the few unambiguous ways by which an international society is constituted and finds expression. As the chapters show, however, what this means precisely varies hugely by setting and circumstance.

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By Paul Sharp and Geoffrey Wiseman

Table of Contents

Foreword; A.Watson * Introduction; J.Mayall * PART I: THE DIPLOMATIC

CORPS FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT: HISTORICAL AND

CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND * The Origins of the Diplomatic Corps: Rome to Constantinople; G.R.Berridge * The Diplomatic Corps as a Symbol of Diplomatic Culture; S.Sofer * PART II: THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS AS A SETTLED AFFAIR  * The Washington Diplomatic Corps: The Place, the

Professionals, and their Performance; A.K.Henrikson * The London Diplomatic Corps; P.Lyon * The Emergence and Practices of the Oslo Diplomatic Corps; H.Leira & I.B.Neumann  * PART III: THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS RECALLED BY PRACTITIONERS * Diplomacy in the East: Seoul, Beijing, and Pyongyang, 1981-2002; J.E.Hoare * Representing India in the Diplomatic Corps; K.S.Rana * PART IV: THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS IN ACTION
The Kathmandu Diplomatic Corps: In Search of a Role in Times of

Transformation; H.Kabir * Genocide in Rwanda and the Kigali Diplomatic Corps: Consultation, Cooperation, Coordination; J.E.Leader * The Skopje Diplomatic Corps and the Macedonian Political Crisis of 2001; P.Sharp
PART V: THE FUTURE OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS * The European Corps: Diplomats and International Cooperation in Western Europe; M.K.D.Cross * Esprit de Corps: Sketches from Diplomatic Life in Stockholm, Hanoi, and New York; G.Wiseman * Conclusion: The Diplomatic Corps' Role in Constituting International Society; P.Sharp & G.Wiseman