The evolution of multilateral diplomacy / JoAnn Fagot Aviel -- The diplomat at the United Nations: yesterday and today / Don Mills -- The United Nations through the eyes of a Russian ambassador / Sergey Lavrov -- The United Nations: dealing with threats to the peace in the post-Cold War Era / Earl Sullivan -- The humanitarian responsibilities of the UN Security Council: ensuring the security of people / Juan Somavia -- Intervening to prevent state collapse: the role of the United Nations / I. William Zartman -- The challenges of the global economy for post-Cold War diplomacy / James P. Muldoon --International economic diplomacy and international organizations / Isaac Cohen -- Private-sector diplomats in the global economy: skills for survival / Jeremy Taylor -- Summits, multilateral diplomacy, and the United Nations / Richard Reitano -- UN conferences: media events or genuine diplomacy? / Jacques Fomerand -- Citizen diplomacy and the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference / Shelton L. Williams -- NGOs and international affairs: a new dimension of diplomacy / JoAnn Fagot Aviel -- NGOs and diplomacy / Judy Mayotte -- The common ground approach: a case study of an NGO / Richard Eisendorf and Tim Werner -- The role of civil society in twenty-first-century diplomacy / Alicia Bâarcena -- Multilateral diplomacy in the post-Cold War world / Earl Sullivan -- Post-Cold War UN diplomacy from up close: inside perspectives from an outsider / Rienk W. Terpstra -- Multilateral diplomacy in a time of "relative" sovereignty / Chen Luzhi -- Diplomacy in the twenty-first century: civil society versus the state / Richard Reitano and Caleb Elfenbein.