Tuesday, 23 February 2010

What you consider to be the most significant change in the nature of diplomacy

The evolution of diplomacy started with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 where it was based on two different empires those were France at Munster, Sweden and the Protestant. The main focus of the Treaty of Westphalia was to end the old order that was used in all the empires, but there was an increase of new powers(Online Encyclopedia).

Also, the Second World War main concerns was the Germany aggression, it had implied that all nations contribute in the war. At that time it had lead to a change into the world politics. The other factor was the Cold War where Soviets and American were to be at the time big Superpowers and they were competing to see who had the best military forces. This had transform the world politics the reason was that the Soviets policy concentrated on the belief that capitalism did not get along with communism (Kegley, JR. 101, 2009). As for the American concentrated more on their belief which was capitalism.

The NGO's had play a very different important role in the new diplomacy where for example two rivals states can not find a diplomatic way to work together. NGO take place and act as diplomatic entrepreneur creating links diplomatic links between the two states.

Another example is the way the internet is being used in the diplomacy, for example in the embassies where they have their websites where people can use to renew their visas on-line or other services can be done on-line.

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