Diplomacy through History

Under the supervision of the dean of the College of Education for Women Prof.Dr. Ibrahim Saleh Ahmed, and within the activities of the History Department in collaboration with the  Continuing Education Center  held a scientific workshop entitled: (Diplomacy through History), on Sunday 28 , May 2023 delivered by ProF. Dr. Fahd Abbas Suleiman. The workshop aimed to clarify the role of diplomacy throughout history. If the history of diplomacy shows that it is as old as peoples, as it was associated with the needs of various human groups in their quest to regulate relations among themselves, and diplomacy has gone through four stages of development in its history: the first stage begins from antiquity until the fifteenth century, and was characterized by movement and sending an envoy to conclude a treaty The second stage begins from the fifteenth century until the Congress of Vienna in 1815, where diplomacy turned from mobility to constancy, and the first permanent diplomatic mission was the one established by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, in Genoa in 1400.         

While the third stage begins from 1815 to 1914, diplomacy became more precise and stable, as the rules governing the activity of diplomatic missions determined and the diplomat became a representative of his state and not of the king or the ruler. In the fourth stage from 1914 to the present, diplomacy has been characterized by a reduction in the role of the diplomat due to a change in goals, as modern diplomacy aspires to achieve political, economic, ideological and propaganda goals to serve various causes.