DIPLOMACY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux
Diplomacy has existed ever since the beginning of civilization, it can be divided into Mesopotamia Civilization, Ancient India, Roman, and Greece, Italian Renaissance, and the world war period to the present.
Some evidence of diplomacy has been found in inscriptions such as El Amarna.. Other inscriptions such as Bogazkoy, Mari (Tell Hariri), Ugarit, and Ebla also discuss the behavior of the representatives in how interact and establish relationship with other countries. The cognition of diplomacy practice begins around 2870 B.C.E, in this time diplomacy was the instrument used as the instrument of the superpower, which is deity, and religion was the dominant thing at the time. As what happened in Sumer as the site of the first independent urban communities. Sumerian city-states use diplomacy as mediation to resolve the problems of other cities under the rule of the super power (great god) of the cities. Diplomacy is also growing in Elba, focused in Elba’s influence and trade. Come for two previous periods, Sargon of Akkad as the first military empire in the history using diplomacy to maintain commercial relations and interests of the state. The size and diversity of Persian Empire adopt decentralized political system that relies on persuasion and diplomacy. After that Hammurabi the best-known member of the dynasty in Babylonia made skillful use of diplomacy to increase power, and based on Mari archives, this period is reveled as the most intense time of diplomatic activity at the time. So that happen in Egypt and Mesopotamia as the major centers of civilization in the Middle East and the Assyria they use diplomacy in negotiating with the alliances, averting war, Helping other cities to maintain their independence.
In Ancient India, China and Greece diplomacy was greatly developed, diplomacy faces new challenge by the emergence of Kautilya treatise as the result of his