Diplomacy 2.0
There is much talk in the air – especially in the US – about reinventing diplomacy for the twenty-first century. But those who assume that the old diplomacy of the nineteenth or even the twentieth century – as it is described by today’s "global network" enthusiasts – was conducted entirely behind closed doors by elites have got their history wrong.
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FLORENCE – There is much talk in the air – especially in Britain and the United States – about reinventing diplomacy for the twenty-first century. Both US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the British Tories’ leader, David Cameron, have spoken recently of a new synthesis of defense, diplomacy, and development, noting that recent American and British foreign policy has placed too much emphasis on the first element at the expense of the latter two.