Court Diplomacy - Kyuteigaiko

Japanese: 宮廷外交 - きゅうていがいこう
Court Diplomacy - Kyuteigaiko

...In his book Diplomacy (1963), H. Nicolson (1886-1968) draws attention to the fact that the terms diplomacy and foreign policy are often used interchangeably, and limits his discussion to diplomacy as negotiation, but will also touch upon foreign policy briefly here.
[Changes in diplomatic form]

[The era of imperial court diplomacy]
Diplomacy as a form of negotiation has a long history that is in keeping with human society, but it is said that the professional diplomats, diplomatic practices and etiquette we see today, and the international law that governs their behavior first emerged in the Italian city-states at the end of the Middle Ages. However, diplomacy truly blossomed in Western Europe during the period of absolutist monarchies from the 16th to the 18th centuries, when a form of "court diplomacy" full of romance and rife with intrigue unfolded.

*Some explanations of terms that refer to "court diplomacy" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ニコルソンH.Nicolson(1886‐1968)は《外交》(1963)の中で,外交と外交政策とがしばしば混同して使用されている点に注意を喚起し,交渉としての外交に限定して論議を進めるが,ここでは外交政策についても若干触れることにする。
【外交形態の変化】

[宮廷外交の時代]
 交渉としての外交は,人類社会とともに長い歴史をもつが,今日見られるような職業外交官や外交の慣行・儀礼,またその行動の規範となる国際法が出現したのは,中世の終りのイタリアの都市国家においてであるといわれる。しかし華々しく外交が開花したのは,16世紀から18世紀にかけての絶対主義王朝期の西欧においてであり,そこではロマンに満ち,陰謀の渦巻く〈宮廷外交〉がくりひろげられた。…

※「宮廷外交」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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