Diplomacy is the main foreign policy instrument representing the broader goals and strategies that guide a state’s interactions with the rest of the world. International treaties, agreements, alliances, and other manifestations of international relations are usually the result of diplomatic negotiations and processes.
Modern diplomatic methods, practices, and principles originated largely from 17th-century European customs. Beginning in the early 20th century, diplomacy became professionalized; the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, ratified by most of the world’s sovereign states, provides a framework for diplomatic procedures, methods, and conduct. We at the Advanced Study Institute of Asia (ASIA) seek to track the changes in diplomacy being practiced by states within our research geography.
