CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-disabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-toc-not-available" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Diplomacy - Wikiquote</title> <script>(function(){var className="client-js vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-disabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-toc-not-available";var cookie=document.cookie.match(/(?:^|; )enwikiquotemwclientpreferences=([^;]+)/);if(cookie){cookie[1].split('%2C').forEach(function(pref){className=className.replace(new RegExp('(^| )'+pref.replace(/-clientpref-\w+$|[^\w-]+/g,'')+'-clientpref-\\w+( |$)'),'$1'+pref+'$2');});}document.documentElement.className=className;}());RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""], "wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"d525ba1e-7b43-45ee-a63d-f14d1aa51af0","wgCanonicalNamespace":"","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":0,"wgPageName":"Diplomacy","wgTitle":"Diplomacy","wgCurRevisionId":3612486,"wgRevisionId":3612486,"wgArticleId":17711,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":["Discourse","Politics","Semiotics","International relations"],"wgPageViewLanguage":"en","wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"Diplomacy","wgRelevantArticleId":17711,"wgIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[],"wgNoticeProject":"wikiquote","wgCiteReferencePreviewsActive":true,"wgMediaViewerOnClick":true,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgVisualEditor":{ "pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en"},"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":true,"watchlist":true,"tagline":true,"nearby":true},"wgWMESchemaEditAttemptStepOversample":false,"wgWMEPageLength":30000,"wgCentralAuthMobileDomain":false,"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":true,"wgULSPosition":"interlanguage","wgULSisCompactLinksEnabled":false,"wgVector2022LanguageInHeader":true,"wgULSisLanguageSelectorEmpty":false,"wgWikibaseItemId":"Q1889","wgCheckUserClientHintsHeadersJsApi":["brands","architecture","bitness","fullVersionList","mobile","model","platform","platformVersion"],"wgSiteNoticeId":"2.3"};RLSTATE={"ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"loading","skins.vector.search.codex.styles":"ready","skins.vector.styles":"ready","skins.vector.icons":"ready","ext.wikimediamessages.styles":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript": "ready","ext.uls.interlanguage":"ready","wikibase.client.init":"ready","ext.wikimediaBadges":"ready","ext.dismissableSiteNotice.styles":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["mediawiki.page.media","site","mediawiki.page.ready","skins.vector.js","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","ext.centralNotice.startUp","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","mmv.bootstrap","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.echo.centralauth","ext.eventLogging","ext.wikimediaEvents","ext.navigationTiming","ext.uls.interface","wikibase.client.vector-2022","ext.checkUser.clientHints","wikibase.sidebar.tracking","ext.dismissableSiteNotice"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.impl(function(){return["user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"}); }];});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.dismissableSiteNotice.styles%7Cext.uls.interlanguage%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cext.wikimediaBadges%7Cext.wikimediamessages.styles%7Cskins.vector.icons%2Cstyles%7Cskins.vector.search.codex.styles%7Cwikibase.client.init&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <script async="" src="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022"></script> <meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.4"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin-when-cross-origin"> <meta name="robots" content="max-image-preview:standard"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="1200"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="800"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg/800px-Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="800"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="533"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg/640px-Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="640"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="427"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=1120"> <meta property="og:title" content="Diplomacy - Wikiquote"> <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <link rel="preconnect" href="//upload.wikimedia.org"> <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="//en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomacy"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit" href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon/wikiquote.ico"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/rest.php/v1/search" title="Wikiquote (en)"> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="//en.wikiquote.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomacy"> <link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Wikiquote Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//meta.wikimedia.org" /> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//login.wikimedia.org"> </head> <body class="skin--responsive skin-vector skin-vector-search-vue mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-0 ns-subject mw-editable page-Diplomacy rootpage-Diplomacy skin-vector-2022 action-view"><a class="mw-jump-link" href="#bodyContent">Jump to content</a> <div class="vector-header-container"> <header class="vector-header mw-header"> <div class="vector-header-start"> <nav class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-main-menu-dropdown vector-button-flush-left vector-button-flush-right" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Main menu" > <label id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-label" for="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-menu mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-menu"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Main menu</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-main-menu" class="vector-main-menu vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-main-menu-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="main-menu-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-main-menu" data-pinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Main menu</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-navigation" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-navigation" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Navigation </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-mainpage-description" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page [z]" accesskey="z"><span>Main page</span></a></li><li id="n-portal" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Community_Portal" title="About the project, what you can do, where to find things"><span>Community portal</span></a></li><li id="n-Village-pump" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Village_pump"><span>Village pump</span></a></li><li id="n-recentchanges" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes in the wiki [r]" accesskey="r"><span>Recent changes</span></a></li><li id="n-randompage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Load a random page [x]" accesskey="x"><span>Random page</span></a></li><li id="n-help" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:Contents" title="The place to find out"><span>Help</span></a></li><li id="n-Contact-Wikiquote" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Contact_us"><span>Contact Wikiquote</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-Wikiquote_links" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-Wikiquote_links" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Wikiquote links </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-People" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_by_name"><span>People</span></a></li><li id="n-Literary-works" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/List_of_literary_works"><span>Literary works</span></a></li><li id="n-Proverbs" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Category:Proverbs"><span>Proverbs</span></a></li><li id="n-Films" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/List_of_films"><span>Films</span></a></li><li id="n-TV-shows" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/List_of_television_shows"><span>TV shows</span></a></li><li id="n-Themes" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Category:Themes"><span>Themes</span></a></li><li id="n-Categories" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Category:Categories"><span>Categories</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" class="mw-logo"> <img class="mw-logo-icon" src="/static/images/icons/wikiquote.svg" alt="" aria-hidden="true" height="50" width="50"> <span class="mw-logo-container skin-invert"> <img class="mw-logo-wordmark" alt="Wikiquote" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikiquote-wordmark-fr.svg" style="width: 4.8125em; height: 2.5em;"> </span> </a> </div> <div class="vector-header-end"> <div id="p-search" role="search" class="vector-search-box-vue vector-search-box-collapses vector-search-box-show-thumbnail vector-search-box-auto-expand-width vector-search-box"> <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only search-toggle" title="Search Wikiquote [f]" accesskey="f"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-search mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-search"></span> <span>Search</span> </a> <div class="vector-typeahead-search-container"> <div class="cdx-typeahead-search cdx-typeahead-search--show-thumbnail cdx-typeahead-search--auto-expand-width"> <form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform" class="cdx-search-input cdx-search-input--has-end-button"> <div id="simpleSearch" class="cdx-search-input__input-wrapper" data-search-loc="header-moved"> <div class="cdx-text-input cdx-text-input--has-start-icon"> <input class="cdx-text-input__input" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikiquote" aria-label="Search Wikiquote" autocapitalize="sentences" title="Search Wikiquote [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput" > <span class="cdx-text-input__icon cdx-text-input__start-icon"></span> </div> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:Search"> </div> <button class="cdx-button cdx-search-input__end-button">Search</button> </form> </div> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-user-links vector-user-links-wide" aria-label="Personal tools"> <div class="vector-user-links-main"> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-preferences" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-userpage" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown " title="Change the appearance of the page's font size, width, and color" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Appearance" > <label id="vector-appearance-dropdown-label" for="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-appearance mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-appearance"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Appearance</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-notifications" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-overflow" class="vector-menu mw-portlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="//donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikiquote.org&uselang=en" class=""><span>Donate</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-createaccount-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Diplomacy" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory" class=""><span>Create account</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-login-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Diplomacy" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o" class=""><span>Log in</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-user-menu vector-button-flush-right vector-user-menu-logged-out" title="More options" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Personal tools" > <label id="vector-user-links-dropdown-label" for="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-ellipsis mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-ellipsis"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Personal tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal user-links-collapsible-item" title="User menu" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="//donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikiquote.org&uselang=en"><span>Donate</span></a></li><li id="pt-createaccount" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Diplomacy" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-userAdd mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-userAdd"></span> <span>Create account</span></a></li><li id="pt-login" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Diplomacy" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-logIn mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-logIn"></span> <span>Log in</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-user-menu-anon-editor" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-user-menu-anon-editor" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Pages for logged out editors <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" aria-label="Learn more about editing"><span>learn more</span></a> </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-anoncontribs" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyContributions" title="A list of edits made from this IP address [y]" accesskey="y"><span>Contributions</span></a></li><li id="pt-anontalk" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Discussion about edits from this IP address [n]" accesskey="n"><span>Talk</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </header> </div> <div class="mw-page-container"> <div class="mw-page-container-inner"> <div class="vector-sitenotice-container"> <div id="siteNotice"><div id="mw-dismissablenotice-anonplace"></div><script>(function(){var node=document.getElementById("mw-dismissablenotice-anonplace");if(node){node.outerHTML="\u003Cdiv class=\"mw-dismissable-notice\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"mw-dismissable-notice-close\"\u003E[\u003Ca tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"\u003Ehide\u003C/a\u003E]\u003C/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"mw-dismissable-notice-body\"\u003E\u003C!-- CentralNotice --\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"localNotice\" data-nosnippet=\"\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"anonnotice\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"position:absolute; z-index:100; right:100px; top:-0px;\" class=\"metadata\" id=\"donate\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align:right; font-size:80%\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EYour \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikimedia:Fundraising\"\u003Econtinued donations\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E keep Wikiquote running!\u003C/i\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003C/div\u003E";}}());</script></div> </div> <div class="vector-column-start"> <div class="vector-main-menu-container"> <div id="mw-navigation"> <nav id="mw-panel" class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Diplomacy</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 26 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-26" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">26 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomatiya" title="Diplomatiya – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Diplomatiya" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Дипломация – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Дипломация" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF" title="কূটনীতি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="কূটনীতি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomat" title="Diplomat – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Diplomat" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomacie" title="Diplomacie – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Diplomacie" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomatie" title="Diplomatie – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Diplomatie" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikiquote.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%BB%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Διπλωματία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Διπλωματία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomatio" title="Diplomatio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Diplomatio" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomacia" title="Diplomacia – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Diplomacia" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomaatia" title="Diplomaatia – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Diplomaatia" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="دیپلماسی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دیپلماسی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomatia" title="Diplomatia – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Diplomatia" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%99%D7%94" title="דיפלומטיה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דיפלומטיה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF" title="कूटनीति – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="कूटनीति" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomat" title="Diplomat – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Diplomat" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomazia" title="Diplomazia – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Diplomazia" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomatija" title="Diplomatija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Diplomatija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomati" title="Diplomati – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Diplomati" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dyplomacja" title="Dyplomacja – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Dyplomacja" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Дипломатия – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Дипломатия" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomat" title="Diplomat – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Diplomat" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Дипломатија – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Дипломатија" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diplomasi" title="Diplomasi – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Diplomasi" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Дипломатія – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Дипломатія" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ngo%E1%BA%A1i_giao" title="Ngoại giao – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Ngoại giao" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E4%BA%A4" title="外交 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="外交" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>中文</span></a></li> </ul> <div class="after-portlet after-portlet-lang"><span class="wb-langlinks-edit wb-langlinks-link"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q1889#sitelinks-wikiquote" title="Edit interlanguage links" class="wbc-editpage">Edit links</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="vector-page-toolbar"> <div class="vector-page-toolbar-container"> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav aria-label="Namespaces"> <div id="p-associated-pages" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-associated-pages" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Diplomacy" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>Page</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Talk:Diplomacy" rel="discussion" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t"><span>Discussion</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown emptyPortlet" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Change language variant" > <label id="vector-variants-dropdown-label" for="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">English</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-variants" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="right-navigation" class="vector-collapsible"> <nav aria-label="Views"> <div id="p-views" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-views" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-view" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Diplomacy"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-edit" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-history" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=history" title="Past revisions of this page [h]" accesskey="h"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-tools-dropdown" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Tools" > <label id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-label" for="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-page-tools" class="vector-page-tools vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-page-tools-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="page-tools-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-page-tools" data-pinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Tools</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-cactions" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-cactions emptyPortlet vector-has-collapsible-items" title="More options" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Actions </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-more-view" class="selected vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Diplomacy"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-edit" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-history" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=history"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-tb" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-tb" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> General </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-whatlinkshere" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Diplomacy" title="A list of all wiki pages that link here [j]" accesskey="j"><span>What links here</span></a></li><li id="t-recentchangeslinked" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Diplomacy" rel="nofollow" title="Recent changes in pages linked from this page [k]" accesskey="k"><span>Related changes</span></a></li><li id="t-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard" title="Upload files [u]" accesskey="u"><span>Upload file</span></a></li><li id="t-specialpages" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q"><span>Special pages</span></a></li><li id="t-permalink" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&oldid=3612486" title="Permanent link to this revision of this page"><span>Permanent link</span></a></li><li id="t-info" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=info" title="More information about this page"><span>Page information</span></a></li><li id="t-cite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CiteThisPage&page=Diplomacy&id=3612486&wpFormIdentifier=titleform" title="Information on how to cite this page"><span>Cite this page</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikiquote.org%2Fwiki%2FDiplomacy"><span>Get shortened URL</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener-qrcode" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:QrCode&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikiquote.org%2Fwiki%2FDiplomacy"><span>Download QR code</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-coll-print_export" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-coll-print_export" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Print/export </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="coll-create_a_book" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator&referer=Diplomacy"><span>Create a book</span></a></li><li id="coll-download-as-rl" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=Diplomacy&action=show-download-screen"><span>Download as PDF</span></a></li><li id="t-print" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&printable=yes" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p"><span>Printable version</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-wikibase-otherprojects" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-wikibase-otherprojects" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> In other projects </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-commons mw-list-item"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Diplomacy" hreflang="en"><span>Wikimedia Commons</span></a></li><li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikipedia mw-list-item"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy" hreflang="en"><span>Wikipedia</span></a></li><li id="t-wikibase" class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikibase-dataitem mw-list-item"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q1889" title="Link to connected data repository item [g]" accesskey="g"><span>Wikidata item</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-column-end"> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-appearance" class="vector-appearance vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-appearance-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="appearance-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-appearance" data-pinned-container-id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Appearance</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.unpin">hide</button> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikiquote</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg/220px-Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg/330px-Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg/440px-Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Enlai" class="extiw" title="w:Zhou Enlai">Zhou Enlai</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy" class="extiw" title="w:Diplomacy">Diplomacy</a></b> is the art and practice of conducting <a href="/wiki/Negotiations" title="Negotiations">negotiations</a> between representatives of groups or nations. In an informal or social sense, diplomacy is the employment of tact to gain strategic advantage, one set of tools being the phrasing of statements in a non-confrontational, or social manner. International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A">A</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_in_a_good_mood.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_in_a_good_mood.jpg/220px-Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_in_a_good_mood.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_in_a_good_mood.jpg/330px-Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_in_a_good_mood.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_in_a_good_mood.jpg/440px-Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_in_a_good_mood.jpg 2x" data-file-width="927" data-file-height="1236" /></a><figcaption>Diplomacy is called the art of managing international relations and navigating complex interpersonal, political, or social situations with tact and skill. Understanding the perspectives and motivations of others is crucial.Empathy helps build trust and fosters open dialogue. Conveying ideas clearly, without ambiguity, ensures messages are well understood.Being concise prevents misunderstandings and maintains Effective diplomats find win-win solutions and compromise without sacrificing key interests. The ability to adapt shows a diplomat’s versatility and capability. The art of diplomacy goes beyond politics and international relations—it applies to corporate negotiations, workplace discussions, and even personal relationships. It emphasizes the importance of finding common ground, fostering mutual respect, and seeking constructive solutions. ~ <a href="/wiki/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy" title="Akhtar Aly Kureshy">Akhtar Aly Kureshy</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aesop" title="Aesop">Aesop</a>, Aesop's Fables</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="B">B</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>, <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i> (1948), p. 72 (originally published in 1906 as <i>The Cynic's Word Book</i>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'You're in America now' I said. 'Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.' <ul><li>The character Harry Dresden, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Butcher" class="extiw" title="w:Jim Butcher">Jim Butcher's</a> novel:<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_Coat" class="extiw" title="w:Turn Coat">Turn Coat</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="C">C</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It occurred to me a long time ago, Mr. Lastogne, that diplomacy has very little to do with making friends. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam-Troy_Castro" title="Adam-Troy Castro">Adam-Troy Castro</a>, <i>Emissaries from the Dead</i> (2008), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-144372-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-144372-5">ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5</a>, </small> p. 47</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Assassination is just diplomacy by other means. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam-Troy_Castro" title="Adam-Troy Castro">Adam-Troy Castro</a>, <i>Emissaries from the Dead</i> (2008), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-144372-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-144372-5">ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5</a>, </small> p. 58</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I could only read the delay as a dramatic pause. Theatrics. Or diplomacy; wise men throughout history had already noticed that sometimes there wasn’t much of a difference between the two. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam-Troy_Castro" title="Adam-Troy Castro">Adam-Troy Castro</a>, <i>Emissaries from the Dead</i> (2008), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-144372-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-144372-5">ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5</a>, </small> pp. 84-85</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>His smile was the wholly unpersuasive kind that only a professional diplomat could carve. Damned if there wasn’t some pretense of compassion in his voice, some veneer of fatherly understanding that gave every word out of his mouth an extra, oily sheen. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam-Troy_Castro" title="Adam-Troy Castro">Adam-Troy Castro</a>, <i>Emissaries from the Dead</i> (2008), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-144372-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-144372-5">ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5</a>, </small> p. 263</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Mr. Scott</b>: Diplomats. The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series" title="Star Trek: The Original Series">Star Trek: The Original Series</a> <i>A Taste of Armageddon</i> (1966), teleplay by Gene L. Coon and Robert Hamner</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="G">G</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It would be some time before I fully realized that the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. This is why the weak are so deeply concerned with the democratic principle of the sovereign equality of states, as a means of providing some small measure of equality for that which is not equal in fact. Coming from a developing country, I was trained extensively in <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">international law</a> and diplomacy and mistakenly assumed that the great powers, especially the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, also trained their representatives in diplomacy and accepted the value of it. But the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boutros_Boutros-Ghali" title="Boutros Boutros-Ghali">Boutros Boutros-Ghali</a>, as quoted in <i>Unvanquished : A U.S. - U.N. Saga</i> (1999), p. 198.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Diplomacy is to do and say<br />The nastiest things in the nicest way. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Goldberg" class="extiw" title="w:Isaac Goldberg">Isaac Goldberg</a>, <i>The Reflex</i>. October (1927)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="H">H</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy. Naming China as America’s main long-term adversary, the Biden Administration’s plan was to split Russia away from China and then cripple China’s own military and economic viability. But the effect of American diplomacy has been to drive Russia and China together, joining with Iran, India and other allies. For the first time since the Bandung Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in 1955, a critical mass is able to be mutually self-sufficient to start the process of achieving independence from Dollar Diplomacy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Hudson_(economist)" title="Michael Hudson (economist)">Michael Hudson</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://michael-hudson.com/2022/07/american-diplomacy-as-a-tragic-drama/">American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama</a>, (28 July 2022)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The basic U.S. policy has been to threaten to destabilize countries and perhaps bomb them until they agree to adopt neoliberal policies and privatize their public domain. But taking on Russia, China and Iran is a much higher order of magnitude. NATO has disarmed itself of the ability to wage conventional warfare by handing over its supply of weaponry – admittedly largely outdated – to be devoured in Ukraine. In any case, no democracy in today’s world can impose a military draft to wage a conventional land warfare against a significant/major adversary. The protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s ended the U.S. military draft, and the only way to really conquer a country is to occupy it in land warfare. This logic also implies that Russia is no more in a position to invade Western Europe than NATO countries are to send conscripts to fight Russia. <br />That leaves Western democracies with the ability to fight only one kind of war: atomic war – or at least, bombing at a distance, as was done in Afghanistan and the Near East, without requiring Western manpower. This is not diplomacy at all. It is merely acting the role of wrecker. But that is the only tactic that remains available to the United States and NATO Europe. It is strikingly like the dynamic of Greek tragedy, where power leads to hubris that is injurious to others and therefore ultimately anti-social – and self-destructive in the end. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Hudson_(economist)" title="Michael Hudson (economist)">Michael Hudson</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://michael-hudson.com/2022/07/american-diplomacy-as-a-tragic-drama/">American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama</a>, (28 July 2022)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Biden administration, expanding upon Trump’s confrontational approach, has <a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Chomsky</a> at a loss for words to describe the danger at hand. Only recently, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Biden</a> met with <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> leaders and instructed them to plan on two wars, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. According to Chomsky: “This is beyond <a href="/wiki/Insanity" title="Insanity">insanity</a>.” Not only that, the group is carrying out provocative acts when diplomacy is really needed..<br />According to <a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Chomsky</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Doomsday_Clock" title="Doomsday Clock">Doomsday Clock</a> setting at 100 seconds to midnight is based upon: (1) <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming">global warming</a> (2) <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_war" title="Nuclear war">nuclear war</a> and (3) <a href="/wiki/Disinformation" title="Disinformation">disinformation</a>, or the collapse of any kind of rational discourse. As such, number three makes it impossible to deal with the first two major problems...As a result, Chomsky says: “We’re living in a world of total illusion and fantasy.” Accordingly, “Unless this is dealt with soon, it’ll be impossible to deal with the two major issues within the time span that we have available, which is not very long.” <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/12/a-world-of-total-illusion-and-fantasy-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/">A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet, Robert Hunziker, <i>CounterPunch</i></a> (12 July 2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="I">I</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Although the expression “citizen diplomacy” was coined in the late 20th century, in fact some 2,200 years before the word existed <a href="/wiki/Guiguzi" title="Guiguzi">Guiguzi</a> had already established the fundamental <a href="/wiki/Principle" class="mw-redirect" title="Principle">principle</a> that <b>diplomacy and promoting <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> between the states is not a profession, but a skill acquired through self-cultivation.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Massimo_Introvigne" title="Massimo Introvigne">Massimo Introvigne</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bitterwinter.org/citizen-diplomacy-from-guiguzi-to-tai-ji-men/">"The Chinese Ethos of Citizen Diplomacy, from Guiguzi to Tai Ji Men"</a>, <i>Bitter Winter</i> (2022)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The jury is still out, but what <a href="/wiki/Machiavelli" class="mw-redirect" title="Machiavelli">Machiavelli</a> described—either to recommend or subtly denounce it—was a diplomacy without <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a>. It may look brilliant, but many who commented on Machiavelli noted that hidden in his works is the idea that a <b>diplomacy totally separated from <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a> and conscience may achieve results occasionally but in most cases, and in the long run, would not work.</b><br />…However we decide to read him, Machiavelli listed as the three features of effective diplomacy <a href="/wiki/Caution" title="Caution">caution</a>, art (meaning the mastery of a number of technical tools), and above all <a href="/wiki/Patience" title="Patience">patience</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Massimo_Introvigne" title="Massimo Introvigne">Massimo Introvigne</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bitterwinter.org/machiavelli-diplomacy-and-tai-ji-men/">"Machiavelli, Diplomacy, and Tai Ji Men"</a>, <i>Bitter Winter</i> (2023)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="J">J</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>We are ready to expand the friendly people-to-people exchanges and enhance exchanges and cooperation in science, technology, culture, education, and other areas... Enhanced interactions and <a href="/wiki/Cooperation" title="Cooperation">cooperation</a> between China and the United States serve the interests of our two peoples and are conducive to <a href="/wiki/World_peace" title="World peace">world peace</a> and <a href="/wiki/Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Development">development</a>. We should stay firmly rooted in the <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> while looking ahead to the future, and view and approach China-U.S. relations from a strategic and long-term perspective... We should, on the basis of the principles set forth in the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués, respect each other as equals and promote closer exchanges and cooperation. This will enable us to make steady progress in advancing constructive and cooperative China-U.S. relations, and bring more benefits to our two peoples and people of the world... We are ready to work with the U.S. side in a spirit of seeking mutual benefit and win-win outcomes to properly address each other's concerns and facilitate the sound and the steady growth of bilateral economic cooperation and trade. We are ready to expand the friendly people-to-people exchanges and enhance exchanges and cooperation in science, technology, culture, education, and other areas. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hu_Jintao" title="Hu Jintao">Hu Jintao</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130503110022/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060420.html">White House speech</a> (20 April 2006)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="K">K</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the ideal American universe, diplomats stayed out of <a href="/wiki/Strategy" title="Strategy">strategy</a>, and military personnel completed their task by the time diplomacy started—a view for which America was to pay dearly in the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam wars</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HhfceQZ3pmoC&q=ideal#v=snippet&q=dearly&f=false">Diplomacy</a></i>. Simon & Schuster. 2012.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Diplomacy&rft.date=2012&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DHhfceQZ3pmoC%26q%3Dideal%23v%3Dsnippet%26q%3Ddearly%26f%3Dfalse&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Diplomacy"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> (originally published in 1994)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Unfortunately, it’s US Diplomacy|“diplomacy” which brought the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">US</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, and <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> to the current standoff. As the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" class="extiw" title="w:Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> disintegrated and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="extiw" title="w:Dissolution of the Soviet Union">Soviet Union collapsed</a>, US encouragement for those events included pledges that the <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> wouldn’t take advantage of the situation to expand eastward. Since then, NATO has inexorably pushed in that direction, nearly doubling the number of member states. Thanks, US “diplomacy.”... Things began coming to a head with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_coup)" class="extiw" title="w:2014 Ukrainian coup)">US-sponsored coup in Ukraine</a> that replaced its <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">“Russia-friendly” regime</a> with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arseniy_Yatsenyuk" class="extiw" title="w:Arseniy Yatsenyuk">“US/Europe-friendly” regime</a> in 2014, courtesy of <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>. Thanks, US “diplomacy.” <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/23/ukraine-us-diplomacy-is-the-problem-can-it-become-the-solution/">Ukraine: US “Diplomacy” is the Problem. Can it Become the Solution? Thomas Knapp,</a> <i>CounterPunch</i>, February 23, 2022</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>After weeks of unsuccessfully attempting to either bully Russia’s <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> into submission or bait him into war, US president <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> may finally be looking for a face-saving exit from of the <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%932022_Russo-Ukrainian_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis">Ukraine “crisis”</a> of his own making... Putin finally drew a red line at <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> membership for Ukraine specifically, and against the US definition of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">“diplomacy”</a> — “do exactly as we demand, without question or objection, and we may consider deigning to allow you to kiss our feet for a little while before kicking you in the face again” — specifically. Bullies really, really, really hate to be told “no,” and tend to go into full bluster and posture mode at the first hint of that happening, which explains the Ukraine “crisis.” Unfortunately for THIS bully, Putin remains seemingly un-frightened. Even as the US and its poodles met in Munich, of all places, to issue more threats, he declined to play the role of <a href="/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain" title="Neville Chamberlain">Neville Chamberlain</a>. So now Joe says he may be ready to talk. Whether the willingness is real, or just another exercise in fake “diplomacy,” remains to be seen. As does whether Putin will give Biden a graceful/deniable way out of this mess, or insist on rubbing his nose in the thick layer of filth US “diplomacy” has previously deposited on the ground. With two nuclear powers at loggerheads, the <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_war" title="Nuclear war">stakes are far too high</a> for further attempts to disguise US <a href="/wiki/Hubris" class="mw-redirect" title="Hubris">hubris</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/megalomania" class="extiw" title="w:megalomania">megalomania</a> as “diplomacy.” <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/23/ukraine-us-diplomacy-is-the-problem-can-it-become-the-solution/">Thomas Knapp, Ukraine: US “Diplomacy” is the Problem. Can it Become the Solution? </a> <i>CounterPunch</i>, February 23, 2022</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="L">L</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>May the pens of the diplomats not ruin again what the people have attained with such exertions. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BCcher" class="extiw" title="w:Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher">Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher</a>, After the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a> (1815).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The great realist thinker <a href="/wiki/Hans_Morgenthau" title="Hans Morgenthau">Hans Morgenthau</a> stated that a fundamental ethical duty of the <a href="/wiki/Statesmanship" title="Statesmanship">statesman</a> is the cultivation of <a href="/wiki/Empathy" title="Empathy">empathy</a>: the ability through study to see the world through the eyes of rival state elites.... This kind of empathy has very valuable consequences for <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy" title="Foreign policy">foreign policy</a>. It makes for an accurate assessment of another state establishment’s goals based on its own thoughts, rather than a picture of those goals generated by one’s own <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fears</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hopes</a>; above all, it permits one to identify the difference between the vital and secondary interests of a rival country as that country’s rulers see them.... <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/11/03/how-u-s-strategists-lost-simple-empathy-along-with-their-wars/">US strategists lost empathy, along with their wars, Responsible Statecraft,</a> Nov 3, 2020</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A vital interest is one on which a state will not compromise unless faced with irresistible military or economic pressure. Otherwise, it will resist to the very limit of its ability, including, if necessary, by war. A statesman who sets out to challenge another state’s vital interests must therefore be sure not only that his or her country possesses this overwhelming power, but that it is prepared actually to use it.<br />Realists know that <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">understanding</a> what Russia and China will risk and why is critical to our policies going forward. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/11/03/how-u-s-strategists-lost-simple-empathy-along-with-their-wars/">US strategists lost empathy, along with their wars, by Anatol Lieven, Responsible Statecraft,</a> Nov 3, 2020</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="M">M</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Secretary_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="w:Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom">Foreign Secretary</a>—and this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretary—is always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Harold Macmillan</a>, secretary of state for foreign affairs, remarks in the House of Commons (July 27, 1955), <i>Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Commons Official Report</i>, vol. 544, col. 1301.</li></ul></li> <li>In international relations, sharing food with people from different cultures to break down barriers is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/culinary" class="extiw" title="w:culinary">culinary</a> diplomacy. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Al_Marashi" class="extiw" title="w:Dana Al Marashi">Dana Al Marashi</a>, Head of Cultural Diplomacy at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates,_Washington,_D.C." class="extiw" title="w:Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, Washington, D.C.">UAE Embassy in Washington, DC</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The problems with Russia are not just <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> expansion. There were also a process that began with the second <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">Bush</a> administration of withdrawing from all of the arms control — almost all of the arms control agreements that we had concluded with the Soviet Union, the very agreements that had brought the first Cold War to an end.... In effect, <b>what the United States did after the end of the Cold War was they reversed the diplomacy that we had used to end the Cold War, and started sort of doing anything, everything the opposite way</b>. We started, in effect, trying to control other countries, to bring them into what we called the <a href="/wiki/New_world_order_(politics)" title="New world order (politics)">“new world order,”</a> but it was not very orderly. And we also sort of asserted the right to use military whenever we wished. We bombed <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a> in the ’90s without the approval of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">U.N.</a> Later, we <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">invaded Iraq</a>, citing false evidence and without any U.N. approval and against the advice not only of Russia but of Germany and France, our allies. So, the United States — I could name a number of others — itself was not careful in abiding by the <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">international laws</a> that we had supported. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_F._Matlock_Jr." title="Jack F. Matlock Jr.">Jack F. Matlock Jr.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/17/jack_matlock_ukraine_russia_nato_us">Ex-U.S. Ambassador to USSR: Ukraine Crisis Stems Directly from Post-Cold War Push to Expand NATO</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Now!" class="extiw" title="w:Democracy Now!"><i>Democracy Now!</i></a>, February 17, 2022</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Long after the damaging excesses of <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a>’s hegemonic power —the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a> <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coups</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">torture</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Drones" title="Drones">drone</a> killings, and those never-ending wars—fade from memory, the world will still need the more benign dimension of its dominion, particularly the very idea of global governance through international organizations and the rule of law, especially as we face a planet similarly in decline. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-did-the-united-states-abandon-diplomacy/">Alfred McCoy <i>How Did the United States Abandon Diplomacy?,</i></a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation" class="extiw" title="w:The Nation">The Nation</a>, (22 May 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="N">N</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Harold_Nicolson" title="Harold Nicolson">Harold George Nicolson</a>, <i>Diplomacy</i> (1939), chapter 3, p. 126.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are all sorts of things you have to do in foreign policy, to get along in the world. To lessen tensions and prevent war. You have to hold your nose and deal with beasts. But you don’t have to tell outrageous and insulting lies, and you don’t have to break faith... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Nordlinger" title="Jay Nordlinger">Jay Nordlinger</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-kim-and-the-boys-in-the-camps/">"Trump, Kim, and the Boys in the Camps"</a> (12 June 2018), <i>National Review</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="O">O</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iran_Talks_14_July_2015_(19680862152).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Iran_Talks_14_July_2015_%2819680862152%29.jpg/220px-Iran_Talks_14_July_2015_%2819680862152%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Iran_Talks_14_July_2015_%2819680862152%29.jpg/330px-Iran_Talks_14_July_2015_%2819680862152%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Iran_Talks_14_July_2015_%2819680862152%29.jpg/440px-Iran_Talks_14_July_2015_%2819680862152%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5309" data-file-height="2126" /></a><figcaption>As commander-in-chief, I make no apology for keeping this country safe and secure through the hard work of diplomacy over the easy rush to war. ~ <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Let me also say this:  The promotion of <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> cannot be about exhortation alone.  At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy.  I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation.  But I also know that <a href="/wiki/Sanction" title="Sanction">sanctions</a> without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo.  No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door. In light of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution" class="extiw" title="w:Cultural Revolution">Cultural Revolution</a>'s horrors, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a>'s meeting with <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao</a> appeared inexcusable -- and yet it surely helped set <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> on a path where millions of its citizens have been lifted from poverty and connected to open societies.  Pope <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">John Paul</a>'s engagement with <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> created space not just for the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, but for labor leaders like <a href="/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa" title="Lech Wałęsa">Lech Walesa</a>.  Ronald Reagan's efforts on <a href="/wiki/Disarmament" title="Disarmament">arms control</a> and embrace of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika" class="extiw" title="w:Perestroika">perestroika</a> not only improved relations with the Soviet Union, but empowered dissidents throughout <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" class="extiw" title="w:Eastern Bloc">Eastern Europe</a>.  There's no simple formula here.  But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-acceptance-nobel-peace-prize">Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech</a>, (10 December 2009)</li></ul></li> <li>As commander-in-chief, I make no apology for keeping this country safe and secure through the hard work of diplomacy over the easy rush to war. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/18/weekly-address-comprehensive-long-term-deal-iran">Weekly Address: A Comprehensive, Long-Term Deal with Iran</a>, White House Office of the Press Secretary (18 July 2015)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="P">P</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>...but first <b>there is a certain experience we must be careful to avoid...we must not become <a href="/wiki/Misology" title="Misology">misologues</a>, as people become <a href="/wiki/Misanthropy" title="Misanthropy">misanthropes</a>. There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable <a href="/wiki/Discourse" title="Discourse">discourse</a>.</b> Misology and misanthropy arise in the same way. <a href="/wiki/Misanthropy" title="Misanthropy">Misanthropy</a> comes when a man without knowledge or skill has placed great trust in someone and believes him to be altogether truthful, sound and trustworthy; then, a short time afterwards he finds him to be wicked and unreliable, and then this happens in another case; when one has frequently had that experience, especially with those whom one believed to be one's closest friends, then, in the end, after many blows, one comes to hate all men and to believe that no one is sound in any way at all...<b>This is a shameful state of affairs... and obviously due to an attempt to have human relations without any skill in human affairs.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, <i>Phaedo</i> 89d–e</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="R">R</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Ritter" title="Scott Ritter">Scott Ritter</a>, in Chris Davis, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A42834">Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc.</a>", <i>Memphis Flyer</i> (May 3, 2008).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A good many of you are probably acquainted with the old proverb, <b>“Speak softly and carry a big stick — you will go far.”</b> If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power... So it is with the nation. It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification, and, above all, in loose-tongued denunciation of other peoples. Whenever on any point we come in contact with a foreign power, I hope that we shall always strive to speak courteously and respectfully of that foreign power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, speech at Minnesota State Fair, as it appeared in the <i>Minneapolis Tribune</i> (3 September 1901)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S">S</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The world already faces a series of major and destabilizing crises, one of which is the Ukraine crisis. It is the U.S. arrogance that blocked negotiations in 2021 between the United States and Russia that could have avoided the crisis. We need peace and diplomacy, not provocation. I hope that the U.S. government reconsiders its dangerous and misguided foreign policy. I want the U.S. to have a foreign policy based on the UN Charter. I want all of global economic diplomacy to be based on the ideas of sustainable development and the Paris Climate Agreement, that is finding the ways to decent lives for people in all parts of the world...<br /> We need a world of peace, in which war is not used as state policy, and a world in which all countries abide by the UN Charter. We have a lot of things to do on this planet to make our global governance work better, to make the planet safer, to address major ills like pandemics or human-induced climate change. And that can't be done by one side dictating the answers to another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs" title="Jeffrey Sachs">Jeffrey Sachs</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://english.news.cn/20220805/1147181a312c493aa389108f9a17b83c/c.html">Interview: U.S. seeking hegemony by dividing world "dangerous" -- world-renowned academic</a>, <i>Xinhua</i>, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jeffsachs.org/interviewsandmedia/gangh757cmzwyaxrx4zj5ttwpp2hwd">jeffsachs.org</a>, August 5, 20022</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our position is made difficult because of the general impression, held by all Terrans, that an ambassador is a man who lies to you, who knows that he is lying, and who further knows that you know he is lying—and still goes ahead and lies, smiling cheerfully at the same time. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_O._Smith" class="extiw" title="w:George O. Smith">George O. Smith</a>, <i>Vocation</i> (1945); originally published in the April 1945 issue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact" class="extiw" title="w:Analog Science Fiction and Fact">Astounding</a>. Reprinted in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_in_Time" class="extiw" title="w:Crossroads in Time">Crossroads in Time</a>,</i> edited by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groff_Conklin" class="extiw" title="w:Groff Conklin">Groff Conklin</a> (p. 251)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When you spend money on defense, on military solutions, it's like surgery. It's painful. It's high-risk. Things go wrong. When you spend money on diplomacy, with our wonderful foreign service officers, it's kind of like going to the clinic and using a variety of different drugs and physical therapy. And when you think about development and soft power, it's preventative medicine. It's those things like working out, taking an aspirin. It's low-cost, low pain, and yet it has long-term benefits. So any military person will tell you, use us as a last resort. Use surgery only when you have to. When you can, use preventative medicine - that's development - or diplomacy, but don't reach for that military instrument too soon.... Unequivocally, the most important ships that I deployed to <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean" class="extiw" title="w:Caribbean">Caribbean</a> were not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carriers" class="extiw" title="w:Aircraft carriers">aircraft carriers</a>, they were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_ships" class="extiw" title="w:Hospital ships">hospital ships</a>. They conducted hundreds of thousands of patient treatments all over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America" class="extiw" title="w:Central America">Central America</a>, the Caribbean, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America" class="extiw" title="w:South America">South America</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stavridis" class="extiw" title="w:James Stavridis">James Stavridis</a> (a retired United States Navy admiral) interviewed by <a href="/wiki/NPR" class="mw-redirect" title="NPR">NPR</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/2019/03/12/702464526/ex-military-leaders-bemoan-trumps-proposed-cuts-to-diplomacyin:"><i>Ex-Military Leaders Bemoan Trump's Proposed Cuts To Diplomacy</i></a> (12 March 12, 2019)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>... When I look at what we spend on defense, which is pushing up toward $650 to $700 billion dollars a year, as compared to what we spend on diplomacy and development... a couple of dozen billions of dollars a year, the scale is just enormous.<br />Secretary of Defense <a href="/wiki/Robert_Gates" title="Robert Gates">Robert Gates</a> famously said, look, <i>we have more people on a single aircraft carrier - and we have 12 of those, David - than we do in the entire foreign service</i>. And another one is former Secretary of Defense <a href="/wiki/Jim_Mattis" title="Jim Mattis">Jim Mattis</a>, who said, <i>you can spend a lot more money on the military, but if you're not going to spend it on our diplomats and development, you're just going to have to buy me more ammunition.</i> Those are two voices I would listen to. Let's keep this thing in balance. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stavridis" class="extiw" title="w:James Stavridis">James Stavridis</a> (a retired United States Navy admiral) interviewed by <a href="/wiki/NPR" class="mw-redirect" title="NPR">NPR</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/2019/03/12/702464526/ex-military-leaders-bemoan-trumps-proposed-cuts-to-diplomacyin:"><i>Ex-Military Leaders Bemoan Trump's Proposed Cuts To Diplomacy</i></a> (12 March 12, 2019)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="W">W</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_Nations_HQ_-_New_York_City.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/United_Nations_HQ_-_New_York_City.jpg/220px-United_Nations_HQ_-_New_York_City.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/United_Nations_HQ_-_New_York_City.jpg/330px-United_Nations_HQ_-_New_York_City.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/United_Nations_HQ_-_New_York_City.jpg 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="239" /></a><figcaption>An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. ~ <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wotton" title="Henry Wotton">Henry Wotton</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wotton" title="Henry Wotton">Henry Wotton</a>, Written in the album of Christopher Fleckmore (1604).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Z">Z</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zhou_Enlai" title="Zhou Enlai">Zhou Enlai</a>, <i>Saturday Evening Post</i> (27 March 1954); this is a play upon the famous maxim of <a href="/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz" title="Carl von Clausewitz">Clausewitz</a>: "War is the continuation of politics by other means".</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_relations" title="International relations">International relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">Politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">International law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/12px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/18px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/24px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></span></span> Encyclopedic article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Diplomacy" class="extiw" title="w:Special:Search/Diplomacy">Diplomacy</a> on Wikipedia</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/12px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/18px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/24px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="370" data-file-height="350" /></span></span> The dictionary definition of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search/diplomacy" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Special:Search/diplomacy">diplomacy</a> on Wiktionary</li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&oldid=3612486">https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&oldid=3612486</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Discourse" title="Category:Discourse">Discourse</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Politics" title="Category:Politics">Politics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Semiotics" title="Category:Semiotics">Semiotics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:International_relations" title="Category:International relations">International relations</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 8 November 2024, at 15:48.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the <a class="external text" href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy Policy.</a></li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:About">About Wikiquote</a></li> <li id="footer-places-disclaimers"><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:General_disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-wm-codeofconduct"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct">Code of Conduct</a></li> <li id="footer-places-developers"><a href="https://developer.wikimedia.org">Developers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-statslink"><a href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikiquote.org">Statistics</a></li> <li id="footer-places-cookiestatement"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie_statement">Cookie statement</a></li> <li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="//en.m.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Diplomacy&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li> </ul> <ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint"> <li id="footer-copyrightico"><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg" width="84" height="29" alt="Wikimedia Foundation" loading="lazy"></a></li> <li id="footer-poweredbyico"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" width="88" height="31" loading="lazy"></a></li> </ul> </footer> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-settings" id="p-dock-bottom"> <ul></ul> </div><script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgHostname":"mw-web.codfw.main-694cf4987f-vbrsz","wgBackendResponseTime":104,"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.084","walltime":"0.113","ppvisitednodes":{"value":921,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":4211,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":1271,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":12,"limit":100},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":0,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":0,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":0,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":0,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 42.429 1 -total"," 42.25% 17.926 4 Template:ISBN"," 32.74% 13.891 1 Template:Cite_book"," 24.84% 10.538 1 Template:Citation/core"," 11.30% 4.793 1 Template:Wikipedia-inline"," 9.60% 4.074 2 Template:Sister-inline"," 7.92% 3.359 1 Template:Link"," 7.33% 3.111 1 Template:Wiktionary-inline"," 6.01% 2.549 4 Template:Main_other"," 4.89% 2.075 1 Template:TOCalpha"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.003","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":619000,"limit":52428800}},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw-web.eqiad.main-6dd864dd59-mljpc","timestamp":"20241108154854","ttl":2592000,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script> <script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"Diplomacy","url":"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Diplomacy","sameAs":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q1889","mainEntity":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q1889","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Contributors to Wikimedia projects"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.org\/static\/images\/wmf-hor-googpub.png"}},"datePublished":"2006-01-17T18:15:57Z","dateModified":"2024-11-08T15:48:28Z","image":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/73\/Chung_Eui-yong_and_Kim_Jong-un.jpg","headline":"art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states"}</script> </body> </html>