Modern diplomacy of capitalist powers

This book deals with the current problems of bourgeois diplomacy. Every state defines the objectives and tasks of its diplomacy, which is the sum total of all the measures, as well as the forms, ways, and means used by this state to implement its general policy in international affairs. Priority is attached to foreign policy; however, foreign policy and diplomacy are inseparably linked and interlocked in an integral whole.
It follows from this fact that the foreign policy and diplomacy of a state, which has a definite social system, stem from the very nature of this system, or the ideology of the class or classes in power, and are called upon to secure their interests. In short, diplomacy, just like foreign policy, has a distinctive class character.
Seeking to shape the destinies of nations, the exploiter classes have always regarded the planning and implementation of foreign policy and diplomatic activity as their exclusive privilege. Today, as in the past, they take whatever steps are necessary to bar the common people from participation in this process in whatever form, let alone directly, through their representatives.
Bourgeois diplomacy continues its loyal service to the capitalist system, and to the monopoly bourgeoisic, which views diplomacy as an important instrument for preserving and consolidating its positions on the international scene, for the struggle against world socialism, the revolutionary and national liberation movements.