The Emergence and Expansion of the Permanent Diplomacy

Year 2010, Issue: 41, 71 - 99, 01.05.2010

Gökhan Erdem

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000267

Abstract

The Emergence and Expansion of the Permanent Diplomacy

Abstract

Diplomacy was of an ad hoc character in Europe until the 15thcentury. Permanent diplomacy emerged in a region of Italy in the 14th century and then expanded to the rest of Europe. From the 16th century onwards, imperial France advanced both the institutional and methodological practice of permanent, professional diplomacy. Later, during the 19th century, permanent diplomatic practice became central to international relations, and still continues to be of vital service to the conduct of world affairs

Keywords

Diplomacy, Permanent Diplomacy, Diplomatic History, Italy