Some analysts had believed that the Pentagon has inflated the North Korean threat in order to rationalize a missile defense system that would allow the U.S. To fight two wars simultaneously (Feffer, 1999)
Figure 1 - Satellite Image of a Possible Nuclear Enrichment Facility in North Korea (Snyder, 2012) There are also many concerns regarding North Korean proliferation activities with other partners such as Iran. One leaked WikiLeaks cable produced evidence that North Korea had passed ballistic missiles to Iran through China (Lewis, 2010)
North Korea just announced a series of economic reforms under its new leader Kim Jong-un. However, analyses are still speculating about the status of North Korea's nuclear program even though news of this has largely been dropped from the major headlines (Snyder, 2012)
North Korea and the United States have a long history of conflict that has stifled many diplomatic efforts. Furthermore, the United States has backed South Korea since the Second World War and recent military actions by North Korea have also heightened tensions (Yang, Hall, & Vanden, 2010)
This can cause one to be easily defeated through comparing the different statements. The individual might also be stuck in the middle of the negotiation since he or she is already at a disadvantage (Lowe & Pile 2007)
This means that he or she should check his or her language. There should be a limit where the individual should not go beyond (Kritek 1994)
After the announcement of the doctrine, the state remained affirmed in its foreign policies. Moreover, the success of the doctrine was registered with the ending of the cold war and dissolution of the Soviet Union (Busch, 2001)
S. changed from that of trying to eliminate introduction of communism to the elimination of communistic governments (Hastedt, 2004)
Some of them are Monroe doctrine by President James Monroe, Truman doctrine by President Harry Truman, and many others. All the doctrines are characterized by foreign policies (Nuechterlein, 2001)
Many soldiers died in the war. Communism never ended, as it is present up-to-date (Radu & Arnold, 1990)
This is an interactive tool that uses video, computing and communication technologies, which allow people in different locations to meet face-to-face and perform what those who meet in the same room or place can (Revision-Notes 2003). Diplomacy involves verbal discussion with the intent of influencing and transmitting a position or negotiation on a particular issue or situation for a mutually acceptable result (Brahm 2003)
The mass media, specifically photojournalism, is another development in modern telecommunications. Photojournalists now use digital imaging, which allows them greater flexibility and extends their deadlines, whereby they can stay longer on location for better pictures (Fahmy 2003)
What has dramatically increased is the amount of information accessible to policymakers and it can only be hoped that the information that reaches and gets processed by diplomats will be used to produce real or positive knowledge and wisdom (Wriston). Significant changes have occurred in diplomacy to which the mechanisms of traditional Diplomacy have yet to adjust to (Schmitz 2005)
Track II diplomacy takes over when Track I fails. A third great revolution has been described as enveloping the world in modern times (Wriston 1997) and the catalyst has been technological change
S. focused on providing Greece with economic and military aid at the point when it seemed that it was vulnerable to communist influences, things changed significantly in the recent years and the superpower no longer seems interested in Greece's critical condition as long as it does not represent an important strategic body (Nelson, Belkin, & Mix)
S. To retain 'superior capabilities to deter and defeat adaptive enemies and to ensure the credibility of security partnerships that are fundamental to regional and global security'" (Smith, 153)
These conventional rules were amplified to other aspects of diplomatic activity, and a true international statute of the diplomatic agent was created in the Vienna Conference about diplomatic relations of 1961." (De Magalhaes 48) A diplomat is not supposed to be a moralist or a crusader who has been sent to simply state and give didactic speeches about morality, religion, ideologies and legalistic causes and put the face of a moralistic man/woman ready to sacrifice diplomacy for the sake of morality
The statesman must act on assessments that cannot be proved at the time that he is making them; he will be judged by history on the basis of how wisely he managed the inevitable change and, above all, by how well he preserves the peace." (3) (Grossman) The above statement by Henry Kissinger reemphasizes that peace should be perused above all and a diplomat must put a peaceful negotiation before his goal
And like other Renaissance innovations, they continued to develop along the lines laid down throughout the period which ended in 1914, so that their first stage may also properly be called the beginning of modern diplomacy." (Mattingly 12) But how modern is this modern diplomacy? There have been changes in the way diplomacy was perceived before the Cold War period and that marks the answer that diplomacy practiced in the early 20th Century needed amends, which gives way to the question as to how well fitted these changes were and in what strategic ways did they effect the outcomes of relations between states from that time on
By the mid-1990s, however, multilateral summits were the norm rather than the exception. (Muldoon, Aviel, Reitano, and Sullivan 204)" As mentioned in the above, summits are becoming more of a norm than an exception; they are also branching off into summits not just pinpointing political affairs between countries but also problems in regard with the economical relations between states, also called Economic Summits