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Diplomatic History
The history of international negotiation and diplomacy.
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- How did Arthur Henderson's working-class background and Labour Party career shape his approach to disarmament diplomacy?
- How did Brandt's wartime exile in Scandinavia shape his later approach to postwar reconciliation?
- How did Giorgos Seferis's career as a diplomat shape his relationship to Greece in his poetry?
- How did Lester Pearson's United Nations Emergency Force let combatants withdraw without losing face?
- How did Saavedra Lamas become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
- How did the Hague Conventions that Asser helped build survive the outbreak of the First World War?
- How did the Pan-American conference system attempt to stabilize relations across the Americas?
- How did the Tigray civil war that began in 2020 complicate the legacy of Abiy Ahmed's peace prize?
- How has the International Ice Patrol tracked North Atlantic icebergs since its founding in response to the Titanic?
- In what sense is Le Duc Tho unique among Nobel Peace Prize laureates?
- On what grounds did Le Duc Tho decline to accept his share of the Peace Prize?
- What activism led to Mohammadi's repeated arrests since 2011?
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- What bilateral arbitration treaties did Elihu Root negotiate as U.S. Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt?
- What border dispute kept Ethiopia and Eritrea in a frozen state of war for two decades?
- What childish prank did Indian and Pakistani diplomats reportedly play on each other's embassy staff?
- What concessions did Sadat and Begin each make at Camp David that their own constituencies largely rejected?
- What did Abiy Ahmed do within weeks of taking office to end the conflict with Eritrea?
- What did Roosevelt do with his Nobel Peace Prize money?
- What did the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons actually commit its signatories to?
- What did the 46 nations that signed the Montreal Protocol in 1987 actually commit to doing?
- What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact actually commit its signatory nations to do?
- What does the 'Middle Way' position actually propose for Tibet, as distinct from full independence?
- What grimmer pattern of intimidation was the doorbell-ringing part of, between two rival nuclear powers?
- What happened when Brandt visited the Warsaw Ghetto memorial in December 1970?
- What institutional machinery did La Fontaine help build to promote international arbitration?
- What is the legal status of the Kellogg-Briand Pact today, decades after the wars it failed to prevent?
- What kind of institutional peace work did Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant pursue between France and Germany?
- What kind of work did the Institute of International Law actually do in its first decades?
- What kinds of cross-border legal disputes did the Hague Conferences on private international law that Asser organized try to standardize?
- What other nuclear disputes was the IAEA managing under ElBaradei in the years before the prize?
- What proposition did Randal Cremer spend four decades campaigning for?
- What role did Léon Bourgeois play at the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907?
- What role did Tawakkol Karman play in Yemen's Arab Spring protests?
- What role did Theodore Roosevelt play in ending the Russo-Japanese War?
- What roles did Mistral hold beyond poetry, such as in diplomacy and education reform?
- What structural weakness made the pact unenforceable despite its unambiguous language?
- What triggered the 1956 Suez Crisis, and why did it unite the US and USSR in opposition?
- What was Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, and what treaties did it produce with Poland and the Soviet Union?
- What was the Anti-War Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, and how did Saavedra Lamas use it to end the Chaco War?
- What was the Institute's underlying theory of why codifying rules of war mattered, even if they could be broken?
- What was the Inter-Parliamentary Union founded to accomplish, and does it still exist?
- What were the Chain Murders, and how did Ebadi's legal work connect to them?
- When did the UN deploy its first armed peacekeeping force, and what conflict prompted it?
- Where were the peace negotiations that produced the Treaty of Portsmouth held?
- Which four organisations made up the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet?
- Why did Tunisia's democratic transition survive while other Arab Spring countries collapsed into war or authoritarianism?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee frame this alcohol-and-language finding as a contribution to Peace?
- Why did the Nobel Committee award the Peace Prize to Henderson in the same year his conference failed?
- Why did the Nobel committee award the Peace Prize to Abiy Ahmed so quickly after the peace deal?
- Why did the Nobel committee choose to honor administrative peace work rather than a dramatic act of peacemaking?
- Why did the Norwegian Nobel Committee describe the joint award to Satyarthi and Yousafzai as not coincidental?
- Why does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights carry influence despite having no enforcement mechanism?
- Why does the entry describe the limits of international arbitration as being tested only a few years later?
- Why have none of the nine nuclear-armed states signed the prohibition treaty?
- Why is the 'spirit of Locarno' remembered as sincere even though the arrangement collapsed within a decade?
- Why is the Montreal Protocol considered uniquely successful compared to other environmental treaties?
- Why was Anwar Sadat assassinated in 1981, and how was it connected to the peace treaty he signed?
- Why was Shirin Ebadi demoted from judge to a clerical post after the 1979 revolution?
- Why was the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians relocated from St Petersburg to Helsinki?
- Why were the Oslo negotiations conducted secretly in Norwegian country houses rather than publicly?
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