ABSTRACT

The more institutionalised the negotiation process becomes, however, the less it will have to do with reciprocity of conduct and the more open it will be to the intervention, consultation and participation of societies and groups that traditional diplomacy used to ignore. Even governments sometimes negotiate through the agencies, private bodies or, in some cases, associations that manage their public

a global, prospective vision of relations between peoples, points up the need for an internationally organised form of bargaining, resource allocation and participation. This need for voluntary arrangements is characteristic of the technological civilisation of an overindustrialised society. Permanent negotiations produce institutions: these, in turn, provide both justification and support for the negotiation. (see 55, 58, 608, 1249)

1503 – All these reasons explain why the modern international world is in the process of organising itself, a process that is having an increasing impact on the sovereign practice of diplomacy.