| Diplomacy's Value: Creating Security in 1920s Europe and the Contemporary Middle East Brian C. Rathbun sets forth a comprehensive theory of diplomacy, based on his understanding that political leaders have distinct diplomatic styles: coercive bargaining, reasoned dialogue, and pragmatic statecraft. Brian C. Rathbun is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans , also from Cornell, and Trust in International Cooperation: International Security Institutions, Domestic Politics, and American Multilateralism. |