Reading:
Hamish M. Scott, ‘The Resilience of Diplomatic Culture and the Sattelzeit’, in Andreas Pečar and Thomas Biscup (eds.), Die Klassifikation der Staatenwelt im langen achtzehnten Jahrhundert (Berlin, 2021), pp. 45-74

Hamish M. Scott, in Hamish Scott and Brendan Simms (eds.), Cultures of Power in Europe During the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 2007), ‘Diplomatic Culture in Old Regime Europe’, pp. 58-85