From ancient royal envoys and Venice's resident ambassadors to the Congress of Vienna and the UN, still negotiating peace one careful sentence at a time. "Diplomat" derives from the Greek diploma, a folded document once issued to Roman travelers as an official pass — a fitting root for a job built almost entirely on paper, protocol and carefully worded documents.
There has never been one required path into the job: some of history's most effective diplomats were career civil servants who rose through exams, others were merchants, priests, generals or aristocrats pressed into service for a single mission.
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From ancient royal envoys and Venice's resident ambassadors to the Congress of Vienna and the UN, still negotiating peace one careful sentence at a time. "Diplomat" derives from the Greek diploma, a folded document once issued to Roman travelers as an official pass — a fitting root for a job built almost entirely on paper, protocol and carefully worded documents.
There has never been one required path into the job: some of history's most effective diplomats were career civil servants who rose through exams, others were merchants, priests, generals or aristocrats pressed into service for a single mission.
This page follows the job from the Amarna letters and Venice's pioneering resident ambassadors to Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna and the Vienna Convention of 1961.
Almost always, though requirements vary. Most foreign services require or strongly reward fluency in at least one language beyond the diplomat's own, and postings to non-English-speaking countries typically come with paid language training beforehand — the US Foreign Service Institute, for instance, runs immersive courses lasting from months to nearly two years for the hardest languages before an officer ever
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