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Bilateral Diplomacy in the European Union, Towards 'post-modern' patterns?
April 3, 2008. 
Just as the European Union (EU) poses questions regarding the nature of political organisation 'beyond the state' similarly it raises issues as to the changing character of diplomacy where this is determined by developments at several interrelated levels, from the global to the subnational. This Discussion Paper in Diplomacy by Jozef Bátora and Brian Hocking explores one aspect of this issue by examining the role of a traditional mode of diplomacy, namely bilateralism, as expressed in the continued presence of bilateral missions in EU member state capitals. Read more »