https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/INTR5164?type=COREDiplomacy is a practice which, like any other practice, can be learned and taught. A course dedicated to the learning and teaching of diplomacy in this sense would be titled, for example, 'How to be a diplomat.' However, apart from being a practice, diplomacy is also an institution of international society. To study diplomacy in this sense is to ask a different kind of question: What is diplomacy? What distinguishes it from other institutions of international society, such as war, international law or great-power management? Can diplomacy be distinguished from foreign policy, and if so, on what grounds? These are theoretical questions. The course explores various attempts at posing and answering them.