TY - BOOK ID - 31272907 TI - Diplomacy PY - 2017 SN - 9781107049161 9781107278776 9781107627123 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES KW - COMMUNICATION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31272907 AB - How do adversaries communicate ? How do diplomatic encounters shape international orders and determine whether states go to war ? Diplomacy, from alliance politics to nuclear brinkmanship, almost always operates through a few forms of signaling : choosing the scope of demands on another state, risking a breach in relations, encouraging a protege, staking one's reputation, or making a diplomatic approach all convey specific sorts of information. Through rich history and analyses of diplomatic network data from the Confidential Print of the British Empire, the author demonstrates the lasting effects that diplomatic encounters have on international affairs. The Concert of Europe, the perceptions of existential threat that formed before the World Wars, the reduction in Cold War tensions known as detente, and the institutional structure of the current world order were all products of inferences about intentions drawn from the statements of individuals represented as the will of states. This book explains how closed-door conversations create stable orders and violent wars. ER -