The roots of diplomacy were set in the ancient world. Moreover, the emergence of countries inevitably caused need to be maintained an active foreign policy on the international stage. It was necessary to establish forms of external contacts and relationships, to negotiate and conclude agreements. This is the sphere of diplomacy – to uphold the international affairs.
In addition to this, diplomacy occurs together with the emergence of foreign relations. It is constantly improving and has improved many centuries earlier before the creation of the term to be determined. Besides, at different stages of history diplomacy has been going through in diverse forms and ways that were consistent with the current conditions, and therefore they do not always coincide with the current ways and forms. Nevertheless, many basic principles of diplomacy and diplomatic skills and activities specific to the time treat distant past, have not lost their importance in our days. Now, a truly efficient diplomacy could be only the one, which is based on traditions, national and historical values and events, as well involving the problems of the modern days. Consequently, this allows the countries to optimally develop their line of foreign relations and successfully ensure their national and state interests.
In order to substantiate the validity of the idea that the ‘old’ diplomacy is contemporary applicable, we can adduce historical examples which aspire to find the solution to certain political affairs and problems of the modern time, since they are concentrated on what is happening in reality. For example, during the cold war nuclear weapons helped make competition between the US and USSR safer than it would have otherwise been if the superpowers had had only conventional arms on their disposal. Both were aware that if each of them had pushed the other too far, the conflict might have escalated to nuclear war engendering the obliteration of many towns and cities. The civil casualties would have been countless. Thus, because they used the diplomatic activities effectively and were aware of the probable aftermaths, they never actually fought a war with each other. So, from this historical paradigm we can perceive that the ‘old’ diplomatic methods and decisions are not only contemporary relevant, but also can be utilize very successfully on the political field nowadays.
Incontrovertibly, the diplomatic actions of the US and the Soviet Union were different during the cold war from those which take place at the present time. Notwithstanding, the history of the cold war implies that what matters is not the character of the countries that have nuclear weapons but the fact that they have them. Therefore, we do not need to look at the state level of analysis, which examine the regimes of the countries, their economic systems and domestic factors, in order to predict the relationship between the countries. Hence, we can witness that the fact that the US and the USSR have nuclear weapons makes the situation between them stable during the cold war, which can be scrutinize as some way of diplomacy to keep the relationships between those countries in tranquility.
On the whole, we can observe that the ‘old’ diplomacy is not outdated because what is happening currently in the international arena is not unique, but is rather reminiscent of events that took place in the past.
Web Links:
1) http://www.coldwar.org/
In addition to this, diplomacy occurs together with the emergence of foreign relations. It is constantly improving and has improved many centuries earlier before the creation of the term to be determined. Besides, at different stages of history diplomacy has been going through in diverse forms and ways that were consistent with the current conditions, and therefore they do not always coincide with the current ways and forms. Nevertheless, many basic principles of diplomacy and diplomatic skills and activities specific to the time treat distant past, have not lost their importance in our days. Now, a truly efficient diplomacy could be only the one, which is based on traditions, national and historical values and events, as well involving the problems of the modern days. Consequently, this allows the countries to optimally develop their line of foreign relations and successfully ensure their national and state interests.
In order to substantiate the validity of the idea that the ‘old’ diplomacy is contemporary applicable, we can adduce historical examples which aspire to find the solution to certain political affairs and problems of the modern time, since they are concentrated on what is happening in reality. For example, during the cold war nuclear weapons helped make competition between the US and USSR safer than it would have otherwise been if the superpowers had had only conventional arms on their disposal. Both were aware that if each of them had pushed the other too far, the conflict might have escalated to nuclear war engendering the obliteration of many towns and cities. The civil casualties would have been countless. Thus, because they used the diplomatic activities effectively and were aware of the probable aftermaths, they never actually fought a war with each other. So, from this historical paradigm we can perceive that the ‘old’ diplomatic methods and decisions are not only contemporary relevant, but also can be utilize very successfully on the political field nowadays.
Incontrovertibly, the diplomatic actions of the US and the Soviet Union were different during the cold war from those which take place at the present time. Notwithstanding, the history of the cold war implies that what matters is not the character of the countries that have nuclear weapons but the fact that they have them. Therefore, we do not need to look at the state level of analysis, which examine the regimes of the countries, their economic systems and domestic factors, in order to predict the relationship between the countries. Hence, we can witness that the fact that the US and the USSR have nuclear weapons makes the situation between them stable during the cold war, which can be scrutinize as some way of diplomacy to keep the relationships between those countries in tranquility.
On the whole, we can observe that the ‘old’ diplomacy is not outdated because what is happening currently in the international arena is not unique, but is rather reminiscent of events that took place in the past.
Web Links:
1) http://www.coldwar.org/
Hi G.!! Wow, I found very interesting what you wrote about Russian diplomacy! Maybe you should make it more evident (through 'labels', or maybe in the title of the post) that you are talking about that in this post: I think it's a really good idea to include a case-study and it also gives the opportunity to us -your colleagues- to learn a lot from it. Also, I like your writing style. The only thing that's missing are links and images! ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the nice comment and for the recommendations, I will add some pictures and links.
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