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It has often been said that the institution of diplomacy is as old as history itself.1 This statement would certainly be accurate if one were to take into account the non-permanent ad hoc missions exchanged between the oldest nations in history during a period which may well be regarded as antiquity.
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© 1965 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Sen, B. (1965). Historical Introduction. In: A Diplomat’s Handbook of International Law and Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8792-3_1
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