READING and DISCUSSING

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 358.

UNIT III HISTORY of DIPLOMACY

1. Read the following extract and discuss the questions given bellow:

The continuity of the diplomatic institution throughout thousands of years and in all known civilizations shows that diplomacy is an institution inherent to international life itself, one that may undergo transformations or may be used with more or less intensity, but cannot be dispensed with.

Jose Calvet De Magalhaes

a. How long has diplomacy been developing?

b. Which civilization was diplomacy developed in?

c. Has it undergone any changes?

d. Why diplomacy cannot be dispensed with?

2. Read and translate the first part of the text paying special attention to the words in bold and italicized lexical units: