I had a general knowledge of diplomacy from studying international relations, but it was limited and did not cover many issues.
This module gave me deep understanding of topic and explained its impact on world affairs.
I believe that the most important thing was to realise that diplomacy is an ongoing process that had been shaped during decades. Globalisation was probably the most curtail factor that influenced its whole form. Nowadays it is easy to follow diplomats steps on world stage because of constant media monitoring, before most of summits took a place behind a close doors far from public. Although the new diplomacy is dominating in the international system, the old form is still present.
The module showed perfectly the differences between all types of diplomacy and practices used while dealing with them.
Multilateral and bilateral diplomacy were completely new terms for me that I found now very useful while looking at current affairs. European Union is an excellent example that practice multilateral diplomacy while dealing with all 27 member states, however when negotiating with a key players like US, Japan or Russia it represents a whole Community and practice bilateral diplomacy. Public diplomacy was the bit that I enjoyed most. It gave the clear idea of soft power and reasons for exercising it.

I believe that the outcome of module had been fully meet. Thanks to blog we could exchange the views and get better knowledge of subject. Seminars were very interesting, especially that this time we could lead them and present from our point of view.
Although this module was running for the first time, I found it really well organised and interesting.