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Netherlands Institute of International Relations‘Clingendael’
ISSN 1569-2981DISCUSSION PAPERS IN DIPLOMACY
Editor:Spencer Mawby,University of Nottingham
Managing Editor:Jan Melissen,Netherlands Institute of International
Relationswww.51lunwen.org‘Clingendael’
Desk top publishing:Birgit Leiteritz
Editorial Board
Karin Aggestam,Lund University
Geoff Berridge,University of Leicester
Rik Coolsaet,University of Ghent
Erik Goldstein,Boston University
Donna Lee,Birmingham University
Paul Sharp,University of Minnesota Duluth

ABSTRACT
This analysis views the practice of summitry as a controversial but irreversibledevelopment in modern diplomatic practice.The author first defines theoncept of summit diplomacy,and then examines the advantages anddisadvantages of diplomatic dialogue at the highest level.The reasons forsummitry’s explosive growth in the second half of the twentieth century arediscussed in the context of the changing international setting of summitry.Itis argued that the continuing spread of the practice of summitry has a price ofits own.In particular it is suggested that the quality of summits does not keeppace with their quantity and that–in spite of summitry’s continuing utility–the practice is increasingly problematic for the leaders themselves,theirdiplomatic support systems and their domestic constituencies.Optimism
about the evolution of multilateral summitry in the literature of the 1990s hasproven to be unwarranted.The multilateral summit meeting has all butreached a state of crisis and it increasingly has the potential to create more problems for the chief executive than it resolves.This crisis is evident in the relationship between political leaders and their electorates as summitry increasingly becomes the most significant area in which diplomacy at the highest level is required to meet public concerns.One could argue that this development amounts to summitry coming of age.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jan Melissen is Director of the Department of Training at the Netherlands
Institute of International Relations‘Clingendael’.He is associate editor of thejournal Diplomacy&Statecraft and managing editor of the ClingendaelDiscussion Papers in Diplomacy.The author has published on various aspects ofcontemporary diplomacy in English and in Dutch.His books includeInnovation in Diplomatic Practice(1999)and Diplomatie.Raderwerk van deinternationale politiek(1999).Jan Melissen’s current research interest is in thefield of public diplomacy and he is preparing a book on the subject.He can becontacted by email at jmelissen@clingendael.nl and would welcome feedbackon the present paper.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The author wishes to acknowledge helpful comments on earlier drafts by
Peter van Grinsven,Hans Labohm and Spencer Mawby.1
SUMMIT DIPLOMACY COMING OF AGE
Jan Melissen
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