This new Dictionary, the most comprehensive ever dedicated to diplomacy, will provide a much needed resource in the field. Not only does it contain a comprehensive range of diplomatic terms, but it also includes entries on legal terms, political events, international organisations and major figures who have occupied the diplomatic scene or written influentially about it over the last half millennium. All students of diplomacy and related subjects and members of the many diplomatic services of the world will find this book indispensable.

G.R. BERRIDGE is Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester. His previous works include South Africa, the Colonial Powers and 'African Defence' (1992) and Talking to the Enemy (1994). He is an Associate Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography and General Editor of the Macmillan/St Martin's Press Studies in Diplomacy Series.

ALAN JAMES is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Keele University. His previous works include Sovereign Statehood (1986) and States in a Changing World (ed. with Robert Jackson, 1993).