A Dictionary of Diplomacy (2nd edition)

The first edition of this title published in 2001 eluded Reference Reviews but was warmly received elsewhere. Now, just two years later, we have a new second edition. Unlike the first this is available in soft as well as hard covers. The authors state that they “added a considerable number of new entries, excluded some which no longer seemed significant, reworked others in the light of further reflection and corrected a few errors” (p. xiii). That Berridge and James were prepared to undertake such a revision after only two years is testimony to the effort that they have put into...