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DISCUSSION PAPERS IN DIPLOMACY Summit Diplomacy Coming of Age
Jan Melissen
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
Relations‘Clingendael’
代写留学生论文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 DuluthABSTRACT
This analysis views the practice of summitry as a controversial but irreversible
development in modern diplomatic practice.The author first defines the
concept of summit diplomacy,and then examines the advantages and
disadvantages of diplomatic dialogue at the highest level.The reasons for
summitry’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.Optimismabout the evolution of multilateral summitry in the literature of the 1990s has
proven to be unwarranted.The multilateral summit meeting has all but
reached a state of crisis and it increasingly has the potential to create moreproblems for the chief executive than it resolves.This crisis is evident in therelationship between political leaders and their electorates as summitryincreasingly becomes the most significant area in which diplomacy at thehighest level is required to meet public concerns.One could argue that thisdevelopment amounts to summitry comingof 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 the
journal Diplomacy&Statecraft and managing editor of the Clingendael
Discussion 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 researchinterest is in thefield of public diplomacy and he is preparing a book on the subject.He can becontacted by email 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 MelissenPolitical leaders love foreign policy.Presidents and Prime Ministers areincreasingly performing diplomatic roles on the international stage.Today itis inconceivable for a Prime Minister in any Western country to leave his/hercountry’s external relations exclusively to the Foreign Minister.As a result,political leaders who have made it to the highest office,whether or not theyhave previous experience in international affairs,know that their agenda will
be packed with bilateral and multilateral meetings with theircounterparts.Old hands and newcomers genera本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。