New Directions in Diplomatic History,4 (History of International Relations Library, 28) Drawing on a wealth of archival and other material, the essays in this volume explore some of the central aspects of the evolution of modern diplomatic practice from the problems of late-nineteenth-century Great Power relations to emerging forms of twenty-first century diplomatic practice. This collection is also meant to...

New Directions in Diplomatic History,4 (History of International Relations Library, 28) Drawing on a wealth of archival and other material, the essays in this volume explore some of the central aspects of the evolution of modern diplomatic practice from the problems of late-nineteenth-century Great Power relations to emerging forms of twenty-first century diplomatic practice. This collection is also meant to honour the contribution made by Keith Hamilton to diplomatic history and diplomatic studies. In his own academic writings and behind the scenes, in the Historical Branch of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as an editor of the official series Documents on British Policy Overseas, he has made an inestimable contribution to the development of diplomatic history and diplomatic studies in the United Kingdom and beyond. Table of Contents T.G. Otte - Introduction 1.Gill Bennett and Patrick Salmon - Keith Hamilton and the Foreign & Commonwealth Historians 2.Keith Neilson - Quot homines, tot sententiae: Bertie, Hardinge, Nicolson and British Foreign Policy, 1906-1916 3.T.G. Otte - "The Pick of Ambassadors": Sir Maurice de Bunsen, Edwardian Diplomatist 4.Erik Goldstein - "A prominent place would have to be taken by history": The Origins of a Foreign Office Historical Section 5.Alastair Noble - Policing the Diktat or Embracing the Enemy? Britons in East Prussia, 1920 6.Christopher Baxter - Outrage on the road to Shanghai: Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen and Anglo-Japanese relations in the 1930s. 7.G.R. Berridge - "A Kind of Diplomatic Incantation": Exchanging British and Japanese diplomats 8.in the Second World War 9.Edward Johnson - "A World Power and a World Influence": The United Nations and the Wilson Governments Search for a Role in Foreign Policy, 1964-65 10. Richard Langhorne - The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations: History and the Future Index About the Editor T.G. Otte is Senior Lecturer in Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia. His latest book is The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865-1914 (2011).