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The US isn’t a dictatorship, and diplomacy isn’t real estate.
And diplomacy – both sanctions and inducements – has failed to stop the North.
As Obama said in his 2014 State of the Union address, “in a world of complex threats, our security depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.”
Much of American foreign policy is now in the hands of people who have been out of international diplomacy for fifteen to twenty years, and so continue to sing from the old Cold War hymn book.
In the past, the most effective financial diplomacy occurred bilaterally, between two powerful states that stood for different approaches to the international economy.
Bilateral talks subsequently remained the key to every major success of large-scale financial diplomacy.
Many Europeans, including me, find it difficult to understand why the debate about Snowden in the United States has devoted so little attention to discovering whether his allegations are true, and, if they are, what that means for international law, US diplomacy, and America’s national security.
The 1961 Vienna Convention, ratified by the US, codifies the international law of diplomacy and diplomatic missions.
Reacting to Snowden’s allegations, US figures, like former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden, made no reference at all to America’s obligations under international law, to its interest in protecting diplomacy, or even to the unfairness and bad faith involved in spying on partners with whom one is supposedly negotiating in a transparent way.
While the policy does include a rebalancing of America’s military posture in Asia – by 2020, the US Navy will deploy more of its forces, including six of its 11 carrier groups, to the Pacific Ocean – it covers the entire spectrum of diplomacy, economics, development, culture, and inter-societal relations.
America’s muddled messaging, delivered by a president unskilled in policy nuance or diplomacy, has inflamed a critical relationship, and in turn, jeopardized the fight against ISIS.
Unfortunately, as was evident in Madrid, there is little harmony between French and US diplomacy: disagreement on NATO renovation and therefore on French integration in the command structure; painful agreement on the number of countries to be admitted into NATO in the first round; disagreement on costs...
While the US tries to achieve this through hard power, regime change, sanctions, and threats of pre-emptive military intervention, Europe uses soft power, diplomacy, inclusion, and partnership.
By contrast, the art of diplomacy is to find language that can hide disagreement.
The common thread in all of these achievements is old-fashioned diplomacy.
But, as in the 1970’s, the success of Nigerian diplomacy will depend on the government’s ability to win legitimacy at home.
According to Putnam, international diplomacy and domestic politics represent a liberal democracy’s two negotiating levels.
Turkish diplomacy has thus become a well-calibrated balancing act, moving closer to European positions in the Middle East, but eager to maintain close relations with the US.
It is an outcome that will have important ramifications for Israel’s domestic politics and foreign policy alike, particularly its Middle Eastern diplomacy.
For example, while Western representatives generally view Iran as an emerging threat, many Russians still insist that the Iranian regime remains a proliferation challenge that can be managed through non-BMD means such as diplomacy and limited international sanctions.
And without proactive diplomacy, the US will quickly be eclipsed internationally, namely by China.
By emphasizing the relations between states and governments over contacts with the opposition or civil societies (when they exist in an identifiable form), traditional diplomacy has created for itself a handicap that is difficult to overcome.
Annan inspired the world with his diplomacy and leadership on poverty reduction and human rights, but the war in Iraq divided the world and drew attention and financial resources away from crisis regions and critical long-term problems like climate change, disease control, sustainable energy, and access to water.
If both war and diplomacy fail, these regional powers believe they will be better positioned than the West to shift the Afghan Great Game in their favor.
Rather than modifying a policy framework that had failed for five years to deliver on its stated objectives, they dug in their heels, eventually resorting to the economic equivalent of gunboat diplomacy.
A final question involves diplomacy.
Worse yet, failure would strengthen those on both sides of the dispute who argue that diplomacy is a waste of time.
Third, diplomacy cannot survive, much less thrive, amidst a deterioration of the day-to-day circumstances on the ground.
More than anything else, Palestinians must come to associate peace and diplomacy with improvement in their living conditions.
His unwillingness to jettison terror and choose diplomacy proved his undoing, as he lost legitimacy in the eyes of both Israel and the United States.
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