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Today an astonishing degree of multilateral diplomacy takes place at the highest level of political authority: heads of state and government, and heads of international organizations, not forgetting the leaders of factions in civil wars. But this is multilateral diplomacy of a special kind; besides, bilateral diplomacy can also take place at the summit, and this is special as well. For these reasons, it is necessary to treat summitry separately. This chapter considers the origins of summitry, its general advantages and disadvantages, and the variations in the contribution to diplomacy — as opposed to propaganda — of the different patterns it assumes.
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Berridge, G.R. (2015). Summits. In: Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137445520_13
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