Je zgodovina diplomacije res prvenstveno (le) politična?
Is the history of diplomacy really (only) a matter of politics?

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the history of diplomacy and its economic component. The author presumes that diplomacy has, throughout history, been conditioned by the economic interests of its actors (states, private merchants etc.) and began to take on its modern form in Italian city states, representing the first step in the international community’s institutionalisation. The momentum of the French Revolution changed the position of economic interests in diplomacy, replacing it with the political component which dominated world diplomacy for a century. However, a shift in the world economy after the end of WWII created a sense of déjà vu in which the economic component of diplomacy regained its pre-French Revolution position by becoming one of the most important activities of diplomacy.

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