ABSTRACT
Several particular institutions in use in diplomacy were mentioned in passing in the fi rst chapter, and in this and the next chapter I shall examine them in more detail. The fi rst is the problem of royal marriages, whose existence is so often assumed to imply political alliances; in the following chapter I shall consider the diplomatic relations of kings and cities and the question of arbitration, ‘summit meetings’, the ‘recognition’ of new states as they appeared, and the persons of envoys.
