Diplomatic Institute Publishes "Readings in Diplomacy"
Doha – Information Office – 25 July
Diplomatic institute of Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a book titled "Readings in Diplomacy," which offered a diplomatic picture of the current practices and similar examples of them from history.
The medium sized book contains a number of definitions and analyses of different political issues and topics presented by diplomats and politicians.
In its first chapter, the book reviews popular, preventive virtual and economic diplomacy forms and their impact on maintaining international peace and security. Contents of these different forms and their applications and international examples were reviewed as well.
The second chapter contains essays concentering on jurisdictional immunities of political delegates, the relationship between the diplomatic and consulate careers, the stages of building up political ties, reasons of cutting off political ties and how does the latter affect the diplomatic delegate as they become unwanted person (Persona non grata).
The essays also shed light on means to change regular citizens into electronic diplomats via their phones, laptops, roles in shaping their country's soft power.
In the third chapter the book went over the Qatari diplomacy and the role of cultural diplomacy in strengthening cultural relationship between countries, taking the Qatari-Turkish relations as an example.
The third chapter also tackles general diplomacy, providing glimpses on the Qatari international health diplomacy, the Qatari model of cultural and economic diplomacy. The chapter also touched on Qatar's experience in settling disputes through negotiations as well as Qatar's entry to the digital diplomacy era.
The fourth chapter of the book was tailored to review the history of diplomacy through surveying the Iraqi-GCC relationships in the past, Chinese-Arab relationships, diplomatic settlements as an alternative to war, Islamic diplomatic perspectives, and ambassadors in prophetic periods.
The book concluded with the topic of invisible diplomacy and disguised travelers.