Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theory and international relations -- Outline of the argument -- Part I Traditions of international thought and the disappointments of diplomacy -- 1 Diplomacy and diplomats in the radical tradition -- Diplomacy and diplomats as the enemy -- The radical tradition, revolutionary diplomacy and the problems of accommodation and co-option -- The radical tradition, revolutionary diplomacy and the idea of subversion -- The radical tradition and diplomats as revolutionaries -- 2 Diplomacy and diplomats in the rational tradition -- The rational tradition and the growth of reason and reasonableness -- Civilizing diplomats and rational cooperation -- Civilizing diplomats and international societies of reasonableness -- Civilizing diplomats, world society and individual freedom -- Diplomatic irrationality and unreasonableness -- 3 Diplomacy and diplomats in the realist tradition -- Diplomacy in systemic and statist conceptions of power politics -- Diplomats in individual-based accounts of power politics -- Personal power and diplomats' symbolic role -- Personal power and diplomats' interactions with colleagues -- Personal power and diplomats' roles as advisors to their sovereigns -- The disappointments of diplomacy -- Part II Elements of a diplomatic tradition of international thought -- 4 The diplomatic tradition: Conditions and relations of separateness -- Diplomacy as mediation -- Human relations as diplomacy -- Diplomacy's own terms I: conditions of separateness -- Diplomacy's own terms II: relations of separateness -- Practical and moral problems regarding relations of separateness -- Relations of separateness from within the diplomatic tradition -- 5 The diplomatic tradition: Diplomacy -- diplomats and international relations.

The emergence of diplomacy within the diplomatic tradition -- The emergence of diplomats in the diplomatic tradition -- Why diplomacy gives rise to diplomats I: the subjective articulation of diplomats as strangers -- Why diplomacy gives rise to diplomats II: the objective articulation of diplomats between worlds -- Diplomats and diplomatic understandings of international systems, societies and communities -- Part III Diplomatic understanding and international societies -- 6 Using the international society idea -- International systems, societies and communities -- Mapping international societies -- The dangers and difficulties revealed by mapping international societies -- 7 Integration-disintegration -- Integration-disintegration and encounter relations -- Integration-disintegration and discovery relations -- Integration-disintegration and re-encounter relations -- Disintegration of international societies -- Integration, disintegration and separateness -- 8 Expansion-contraction -- Expansion-contraction and encounter relations -- Expansion-contraction and discovery relations -- European expansion and diplomacy -- Expansion-contraction and re-encounter relations -- Re-encounter relations and vertical diplomacy -- From la raison de système to la raison des systèmes -- 9 Concentration-diffusion -- Concentration-diffusion and encounter relations -- Concentration-diffusion and discovery relations -- Diplomats and the discovery of shifts in the distribution of power -- Concentration-diffusion and re-encounter relations -- Political power, diplomatic talk and other people's problems -- Part IV Thinking diplomatically about international issues -- 10 Rogue state diplomacy -- History, International Relations and the idea of rogue states -- Diplomats, civility and the identification of rogue states -- How do rogue states exist for diplomats and diplomacy?.

How is rogue state diplomacy to be conducted? -- Governments and diplomats -- Talking for talk's sake -- Rogue state diplomacy as a holding operation -- 11 Greedy company diplomacy -- International economic issues as diplomatic issues -- Economic actors as diplomatic actors -- Mixed societies and the diplomacy of less greedy companies -- 12 Crazy religion diplomacy -- Westphalia, modern diplomatic thinking and the problem of religion -- Religion, religions and crazy religion -- Encounters and discoveries between faith-based powers: the diplomatic thinking of early Islam -- Beyond discovery to re-encounters: the difficulties of diplomacy between faith-based powers -- From "boxing and taming" to "exile and promotion" -- 13 Dumb public diplomacy -- Modern diplomacy and the traditionalist critique of public diplomacy -- Problems with the traditionalist critique -- Diplomatic thinking and public diplomacy -- The failures of public diplomacy -- Diplomatic thinking and commercial public diplomacy -- Diplomatic thinking and public diplomacy with the Muslim world -- Diplomatic thinking and improving public diplomacy -- Becoming diplomatic -- Conclusion -- Diplomatic theory and the balance of virtue and right -- Diplomatic theory and appeasement -- Diplomatic theory and human solidarity -- Bibliography -- Index.