Diplomacy is transforming and expanding its role as the method of interstate relations to a general instrument of communication among globalized societies. Adapting to globalization, the practice of diplomacy is shared by non-state participants, thus becoming privatized and popularized. With the strife for common values, the finality of international interactions moves beyond national interest towards communitarianism. International law governing foreign relations can be strengthened through judicial review by national courts.

Working on the interface of diplomacy and academia, this practitioner's perspective combines an insider view into innovation and change of the diplomatic process with a concise interdisciplinary academic analysis.

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Germany.- Introduction: Practitioner's perspective of diplomacy.- Essentials of modern diplomacy.- Diplomacy between statecraft and social science.- Internalization of diplomacy or internationalization of domestic policy.- From national to European Foreign Service.- Symbolism and ritual in multilateral diplomacy.- Flexibility and pragmatism as response to global challenges.- Reciprocity versus communitarianism.- Transformation of globalized relations and its impact on diplomacy.- New participants and corporate diplomacy: symbiosis of diplomacy and transnational companies.- Citizen diplomats and public relations diplomacy: popularization of diplomacy.- Towards a diplomatic corporate identity?.- The importance of an international diplomatic culture.- The relevance of language.- Globalized relations and the law.- Private authority in transnational relations.- Transnational regime as soft law.- Judicial review of governmental diplomacy.