ABC News (Australia)
| Jul 19, 2012
Britain and the United States have called for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged the Security Council to take strong action.
LinkTV News
| Jul 17, 2012
The presidents of France and Tunisia today added their voices to calls for Russia and Iran to help resolve the worsening conflict in Syria. Francois Hollande took aim at Russia's refusal to back a Western-backed resolution due to be voted on by th...
VOA News
| Jun 25, 2012
Ukraine has used its hosting of the Euro 2012 football championships as an opportunity to promote a friendlier image to the international community. As thousands of football fans swarm into the country, ordinary Ukrainians are opening up their hom...
Associated Press
| Jun 5, 2012
Syria barred a string of US and European diplomats Tuesday, saying they were "no longer welcome" as the country plunged into its most profound international isolation in decades. US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, "In almost every resp...
Channel 4 News
| May 29, 2012
Jon Snow is joined by International Editor Lindsey Hilsum and from Washington by Matt Frei to discuss what steps the international community may take in order to stop the violence in Syria.
ABC News (Australia)
| May 29, 2012
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Western powers are stepping up diplomatic pressure on Syria over the killing of civilians, with three countries including Australia expelling senior Syrian diplomats. This follows the massacre of 108 people in Houla on Fr...
LinkAsia
| May 11, 2012
China's tightly controlled state propaganda machine was in complete disarray as the Chen Guangcheng saga played out last week, with conflicting messages abounding. Contributor David Bandurski breaks down the sequence of events that played out betw...
LinkAsia
| May 4, 2012
This week, the Chen case threatened to derail the Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the US and China. The talks seek to improve communication between the US and China on issues ranging from the economy to security. State broadcaster CCTV rep...
— Feb 17, 2012 at 10:26 pm
The diplomacy between world powers speeded up Feb. 17, after the U.N. General Assembly intensified the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...
— Oct 1, 2012 at 03:05 am
...of the Shia, which is the biggest group in Iraq. Sunnis are represented by the Chairman of the Iraqi Parliament Usama Al-Nujayfi. It cannot be d...
— May 8 at 09:35 pm
...the end of January, in the days after Hillary Clinton stepped down as secretary of state, the media rushed to analyze her achievements. Writing ...
Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics, culture, environment, and human rights. International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians. In an informal or social sense, diplomacy is the employment of tact to gain strategic advantage or to find mutually acceptable solutions to a common challenge, one set of tools being the phrasing of statements in a non-confrontational, or polite manner.
The scholarly discipline of diplomatics, dealing with the study of old documents, derives its name from the same source, but its modern meaning is quite distinct from the activity of diplomacy.
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