CONTENTS

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Introduction[3]
CHAPTER
I.Eighteenth Century Diplomacy[22]
II.Old Diplomatic Correspondence[36]
III.After the Congress of Vienna[45]
IV.Napoleon III, Disraeli, Bismarck[58]
V.Triple Alliance Diplomacy and Morocco[70]
VI.Entente Diplomacy[84]
VII.The Crisis of 1914[102]
VIII.The Secret Treaties of the War[116]
IX.Hopes for Improvement Deferred[129]
X.The Destruction of Public Confidence[136]
XI.Parliament and Foreign Affairs[149]
XII.The Public and Diplomacy[166]
XIII.A Survival of Absolutism[181]
XIV.Recent American Experience[194]
Conclusion[211]
Index[225]