The 'old diplomacy' is based on the bilateral negotiation between two states where they have a secret conversation. The diplomats used to travel to have indirect negotiation, so the aim for the diplomats at the time was to be sent abroad to negotiate, nowadays the diplomats do not need to travel to get to one end of the world. The reason is that now there is the Internet that has change the way in which the diplomats communicate, but still it is relevant to the 'old diplomacy'.
Before the Cold War, the negotiation was due through secrecy when the states used to meet to discuss about an issue. When the states wanted to have meetings that others should not know they had that secret meeting between them. However, in the 'old diplomacy' embassies played a big role in when it came to negotiation or sharing information about the place they were representing. Sometimes the embassies are used to be the intermediate in a negotiation when countries are not able to solve a problem.
When conflicts occurs in countries there need to have one other country to play the intermediate. So they will need to use the diplomacy talk or talk to one country first and later to talk to the second country to end the dispute among them. In the case of Israel and Lebanon where there was a conflict, later on the U.S.A had to intervene to find a diplomatic solution.
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Since the United Nations was created which followed by the Second World War, then 'new diplomacy' had challenged many view of the 'old diplomacy'.
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