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See: consideration, discretion, intercession, negotiation, parley DIPLOMACY., The science which treats of the relations and interests of nations with nations. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then, starting from Max Weber's idea that bureaucracies invented official secrets as a means of self-preservation, Melissa Meriam Bullard shows that early modern diplomacy functioned as a theater in which secrecy was acted out. But as the State Department has come under fiscal siege, it must confront the contradiction between the demands of modern diplomacy and the dictates of its still almost-feudal bureaucratic culture. ``It's also highly unusual, in modern diplomacy, for a head of state to take a step like this,'' Burns said. |
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