Tel-Aviv University                                               International Program in Security

Spring Semester 2011-2012                                        and Diplomacy Studies

INTRODUCTION TO DIPLOMACY

Professor Aharon Klieman

Course Description:

An introductory survey of the origins, history and evolution of arguably the world’s second oldest profession from its earliest antecedents in the ancient Near East to the indispensable role of statesmen, statesmanship and statecraft in today’s globalized world. 

Course Requirements:

1. Regular class attendance and contribution to group discussion
2. Reading assignments in preparation for each forthcoming session (as indicated below)
3. 1-2 class presentations [to be announced]
4. 1-2 research paper assignments [to be announced]

Core Readings:

Copies of the following three primary texts are available in the Social Sciences Library:

G. R. Berridge. Diplomacy. Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2002)

Dennis Ross. Statecraft (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)  

Geoffrey Allen Pigman. Contemporary Diplomacy (Polity, 2010)

Schedule of Weekly Class Sessions, Discussion Topics & Readings

15 March     “Old” and “New” Diplomacy? Continuity versus Change in Traditional, Transitional and Transnational Statecraft

        Abba Eban. The New Diplomacy. International Relations in the Modern Age (Random House, 1983). Chapter 9. “Diplomacy Old and New”, pp. 330-401

      Geoffrey Allen Pigman. Contemporary Diplomacy (Polity, 2010). Chapter 2. “The Changing Landscape of Diplomatic Actors and Venues”, pp. 17-30

        Garrett Mattingly. Renaissance Diplomacy (Penguin Books, 1955)

22 March     The Role of Statecraft in the Nineteenth- & Twentieth Centuries

              Adam Watson. The Evolution of International Society (Routledge, 1992).  Chapter 17. “Westphalia”, pp. 182-197

             Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George. Force and Statecraft. Diplomatic Problems of Our Time. Third Edition (Oxford University Press, 1995). Chapter 3. “Balance of Power, 1815-1914: Three Experiments”, pp. 25-42

            Henry Kissinger. Diplomacy. Chapter 9. “The New Face of Diplomacy: Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles”, pp. 218-245

             President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, January 8, 1918

               http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/wilson14.asp

             Joshua Muravchik, “After the Fall: 1989, Twenty Years On”, in World Affairs, (Summer 2009)

             http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2009-Summer/full-Muravchik.html

             Sir Harold Nicolson. Diplomacy (Oxford University Press, 1964). Chapter 4. "Types of European Diplomacy", pp. 68-83

29 March     Hallmarks of 21^st Century Diplomacy: Economic Statecraft, Humanitarian Intervention and Media Diplomacy        

              Pigman. Chapter 7. “Technological Change and Diplomatic Process”, pp. 109-120

             Pigman. Chapter 9. “Managing Economic Diplomacy”, pp. 138-160

              Michael J. Glennon, “The New Interventionism”, in Foreign Affairs, Vol. 78, No. 3 (May/June 1999), pp. 2-7

             Pigman. Chapter 8. “Public Diplomacy”, pp. 121-137

              Margaret MacMillan, “Cable News”, in  Foreign Policy, Issue 185 (March/ April,2011), pp. 99-100
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• Fouad Ajami, “Nothing to See Here”, in Foreign Policy, Issue 185 (March/April 2011), pp. 103-104 

http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2292634671&Fmt=3&clientId=11916&RQT=309&VName=PQD

19 April        Studies in Bilateral Diplomacy

              G.R. Berridge. Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2002). Chapter 7. “Bilateral Diplomacy: Conventional”, pp. 105-128

              Pigman, Chapter 11. “Managing Cultural Diplomacy”, pp. 180-199

              Robert D. Putnam, “Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games”, in International Organization, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Summer 1988), pp. 427-460

              Berridge. Chapter 10. “Summitry”, pp. 168-186

        Feldman, Lily Gardner, “The Principle and Practice of ‘Reconciliation’ in German Foreign Policy”, in International Affairs, Vol. 75, No. 2 (April 1999), pp. 333-356

                           http://www.jstor.org/stable/2623347

3 May           Studies in Trilateral Diplomacy

              Berridge. Chapter 11. “Mediation”, pp. 187-206

              Dennis Ross. Statecraft (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007). Chapter 10. “Mediation in a World of Local Conflict”, pp. 216-236

               Ross. Chapter 11. “Eleven Rules for Mediation”’ pp. 237-258 

              “Holbrooke Discusses Dayton Peace Accords”. Video Interview

     http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/12/archive-video-holbrooke-talks- about-dayton-accords.html

          Adriana Camisar, et.al., “An Analysis of the Dayton Negotiations and Peace Accords”. Final Research Paper DHP D224 (The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 2005)      http://ocw.tufts.edu/data/12/244825.pdf

10 May         Studies in Multilateral Diplomacy

              Berridge, Chapter 9. “Multilateral Diplomacy”, pp. 146-164

              Pigman. Chapter 4. Multilateral Institutions, Supranational Polities and Regional Bodies”, pp. 49-69; Chapter 6. “Global and Transnational Firms”, pp. 70-87

              Ross. Chapter 4. “Cases of Statecraft”. Undoing Iraqi Aggression in Kuwait”, pp. 73-99

17 May           Studies in Crisis Diplomacy

              James G Blight, Joseph S. Nye, David A. Welch, “The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited”, in Foreign Affairs, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Fall 1987), pp. 170-188

              Berridge. Chapter 6. “Telecommunications”, pp.90-104

24 May           The Quintessential Diplomat

              David L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollock, “Let Us Now Praise Great Men, Bringing the Statesman Back In”, in International Security, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Spring 2001), pp. 107-146 

              Nicolson. Diplomacy. Chapter 5. “The Ideal Diplomatist”, pp. 55-67

              T.G. Otte, “Kissinger”, in G.R. Berridge, Maurice Keens-Soper and  T.G. Otte (editors). Diplomatic Theory from Machiavelli to Kissinger, pp. 181-203

31 May           Diplomatic Persuasion and the Negotiation Process 

              Ross. Chapter 8. “Negotiations as an Instrument of Statecraft”, pp. 173-186; Chapter 9. “Negotiations” Twelve Rules to Follow”, pp. 187-215

              Berridge. Part I. “The Art of Negotiation”. Chapter 2. “Prenegotiations”, pp. 25-45; Chapter 3. “‘Around-the-Table’ Negotiations”, pp. 46-55; Chapter 5. “Packaging Agreements”, pp. 72-85

7 June           Studies in Middle Eastern Diplomacy

              Aaron David Miller. The Much Too Promised Land (Bantam Books, 2008). Chapter 8. “Mr. nice guy: Bill Clinton and the Arabs and Israelis he loved too much”, pp. 278-315

              President Barak Obama, “The President's Speech in Cairo: A New Beginning”, June 4, 2009

                          http://www.whitehouse.gov/search/site/cairo%20speech

             Aharon Klieman, “With Special Reference to the United States: Peacemakers as Peace Spoilers”, in Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Vol. IV, No. 3 (2010), 9-19

 14 June         Israel as an International State Actor

              David Harris, “Want to Understand Israel?”, The Huffington Post, 19 August 2011

http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=5264477&ct=11193459#.TmRqL-2ZOyY.gmail

              Sasson Sofer, “Towards distant frontiers: the course of Israeli diplomacy”, in Israel Affairs, Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2 (2004), pp. 1-9

                            http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537120412331321341

              Aharon Klieman, "Israeli Negotiating Culture", in Tamar Wittes (editor). How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2005). pp. 81-131

21 June         The Art & Science of Diplomacy – Today, More Than Ever

              Pigman. “Conclusions: Contemporary Diplomatic Practice and Theory. Looking Ahead”, pp. 200-212

         Hans Morgenthau. Politics Among Nations (Alfred Knopf, 1973). Chapter 32. “The Future of Diplomacy”, pp. 530-550