Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to provide students and junior diplomats with an orderly perspective on modern diplomacy. The effort is necessary because like so many aspects of politics, diplomatic reality is constantly becoming more complex. A disciplined grasp can help. It is useful, as I show, to speak of a diplomatic 'field' composed of four categories of actors: national, multilateral, supranational, and non-national. To illustrate the field's relevance the article refers to numerous concrete examples and shows how in many cases the four areas mentioned overlap. I also show that diplomacy is a highly political term tied to the concept of sovereignty or, as David Easton says, to the 'authoritative allocation of public values.'
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