Course Overview 

This course introduces the 'world' of diplomacy in the field of international relations. Divided into five parts (see I to V in menu), it begins with identifying the theoretical and constitutive aspects of diplomacy. It further seeks to examine the changing diplomatic machinery and role of individuals, and the various types of diplomacy such as bilateral, multilateral, conference, summit and national styles, and security/coercive, economic, preventive and crisis issues in diplomacy. We would also identify the new frontiers in diplomacy such as public, culture, terrorism and technologies and non-traditional arenas ending with sporadic debates on the death of diplomacy.