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I would hope that WikiLeaks would not publish a cable in which diplomats informed their superiors of the plot.
Success will require engagement at all levels of the US government, from cabinet officials to diplomats.
Generals, diplomats, national-security officials, and development professionals are approaching a consensus in favor of a no-fly “safe zone” along one of Syria’s borders.
New Politics for Clean EnergyNEW YORK – The diplomats have done their job, concluding the Paris climate agreement in December.
Originally, Turkey was obliged to meet 72 benchmarks by then, with some EU diplomats claiming that only half have been met.
And now that Trump has installed a hawkish new foreign-policy team – with John Bolton as national security adviser and Mike Pompeo as secretary of state – European diplomats fear the worst.
For European diplomats, that disaster and the success of the JCPOA have come to represent two foreign-policy extremes.
To Iran, European diplomats offered a choice between two futures: one in which Iran would freeze its nuclear program and end its international isolation; and one in which it would maintain its program and face ever-harsher sanctions, and possibly war.
Diplomats in some EU member states have started to worry that attempts to placate Trump could force them into self-defeating positions, thus reprising the relationship between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush in 2003.
When Tibetan demonstrators outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi attacked the premises, the Indian government stepped up its protection for the Chinese diplomats.
Diplomats depend on these relationships to advance their national interests, and professional ties between military officers are sometimes the only channels that weather political storms.
But diplomats and military brass alike should be willing to take a step back when appropriate, condition their interactions, and make use of available leverage – even at the risk of a counterpart’s wrath.
Both generals and diplomats are finding it hard to move beyond Cold War thinking, and their retrograde posture is hindering President Putin's efforts to push the country in a new direction.
It is no secret that Russia's diplomats and military leaders were unhappy with Putin's decisive tilt toward the West after the war on terror began.
To promote their position, Russia's generals and diplomats adhere to the perception that the country remains besieged by enemies, the US and NATO most prominently.
High-ranking diplomats understand that their way of thinking requires one sort of diplomacy, and that a foreign policy focused on realizing Russia's economic potential requires quite another.
Like post-Soviet Bourbons, Russia's generals and diplomats have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
But even here it isn’t impossible to imagine that diplomats might be able to fudge things enough to reach an agreement that even the Leave camp can stomach.
The responsibility for our collective failure and inaction is not confined to international diplomats and policymakers; it is shared by all of us.
Diplomats make careers of finding procedural solutions to insoluble dilemmas; surely, they hope, there is a conference table with a shape that matches a given strategic configuration.
Having lived in America, I suspected that US leaders did not heed the advice of British diplomats nearly as much as those diplomats liked to think.
Likewise, there was criticism of the government's recent decision to expel three Iraqi diplomats for activities threatening Jordan's security.
The lack of a defined enemy makes reporting on and understanding the conflict difficult for journalists, diplomats, and government officials.
For this reason, US diplomats are lobbying hard for the OSCE, and Kazakhstan in particular, to be given a fair chance.
Appeasement RevisitedI vividly remember the slightly ludicrous, slightly risqué, and somewhat distressing predicament in which Western diplomats in Prague found themselves during the Cold War.
They regularly needed to resolve the delicate issue of whether to invite to their embassy celebrations various Charter 77 signatories, human rights activists, critics of the communist regime, displaced politicians, or even banned writers, scholars, and journalists – people with whom the diplomats were generally friends.
Western diplomats had their countries’ economic interests to consider, but, unlike the Soviet side, they took seriously the idea of “dissidents or trade.”
Lists will be shortened and deletions made, and this will frequently entail eliminating even good personal friends of the diplomats in charge of the screening, people whom they have given various forms of intellectual, political, or material assistance.
It will be even worse if the EU countries try to mask their screening activities by inviting only diplomats to embassy celebrations in Cuba.
I didn’t, and still don’t, know any diplomats with the means to purchase a Bentley.
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