History A-Level
Foreign diplomacy
What Foreign diplomacy means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Foreign diplomacy
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Depriving Warbeck of his northern ally through the Truce of Ayton formed part of a strategy of using diplomacy to isolate pretenders.
Topics that use Foreign diplomacy
- 2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499 – The end of the Yorkist Dynasty, 1486–1499 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of power
- Consolidation of power
- Dynastic legitimacy
- Dynastic security
- Dynastic threat
- Economic continuity and change
- Foreign intervention
- Foreign policy
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