Historian Jeremy Black challenges the conventional account of the development of diplomacy, devoting more attention to non-Western traditions and to the medieval West than is usually the case. Black charts the course and evolution of 'diplomacy' in all its incarnations, concluding with the ideological diplomatic conflicts of the twentieth century and the situation today.

Author Biography

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of more than 80 books, including Maps and Politics (1997), Why Wars Happen (1998), War since 1945 (2004), Britain since the Seventies (2004) and Altered States: America since the Sixties (2004), all published by Reaktion.