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Multilateralism—Diplomatic and Otherwise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Inis L. Claude JR
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‘Multilateral diplomacy’, like many other terms current in the literature of international relations, tends to serve less as a topic for careful study than as a symbol, evoking generalized reactions of approval or disapproval, confidence or anxiety. In the mind of the public, the mention of those two words today calls up a picture of a big, noisy international conference, complete with committees and chairmen, agenda and rules of procedure, debates and votes, rostrum and gallery, earphones for simultaneous translation and microphones and cameras for world-wide transmission of the proceedings.

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International Organization , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Winter 1958 , pp. 43 - 52
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1958

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