Diplomacy In International Relations

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Diplomatic actions existed very early and it is obvious why it should have been continue existing. The diplomats were a response to felt a need for a means to express messages between states safely and consistently. It is informative to describe that right from the beginning, diplomacy even in its crudest forms, evolved in response to political needs (Langhorne, 1998). Diplomacy already occurred in early 1600s, where the first modern foreign ministry was established in France by Cardinal Richelieu. Richelieu saw diplomacy as a continuous process of negotiation wherein the negotiation phase, players communicate with each other to discuss tactics and strategy, form alliances, and share intelligence or spread disinformation about mutual adversaries. …show more content…

The states interact within a set of long-established “rules of the game” governing what it considered a state and how states treat each other and these rules shape the so-called international system (Viotti, et al., 2010). The main Characteristic of a case suitable for game theoretical analysis is that outcome are determined by the actions of a player and the actions of other players. It is this basic interaction between the actions taken by each player and the outcome experiences by all players that make diplomacy a fit topic for game theoretical analysis (Rosen). Rosen notes that in diplomacy, absolute conflicts with other players have the aspect of 2-person zero-sum games. The efforts of two cautious players to form a new alliance often follow the pattern of iterated cooperative games, where reciprocity or outside threat may succeed in building trust to the point where two allies can coordinate their moves in order to make the best use of all their units. He also adds that what makes a good player of diplomacy is the ability to learn which sub-games are appropriate for understanding and thus strategizing in a given game situation. And in addition to that, according to Alfred Castle realism demands that diplomats deal with a flawed world the way it is. Mankind has consistently showed the capacity …show more content…

The idea accompanying the League of Nations and carried later to the United Nations was diplomacy through a permanent state of conference between representatives of many nations (Szykman). Realists believe that self-governing states are the principal actors in the international system therefore international institutions, NGOs, MNCs, individuals and other actors have only little independent influence. And according to Weisbrod, there are two primary theories that claim to explain the origin and growth of NGOs which are the government failure and market failure. These terms are usually applied in economic aspects, but they are also relevant in explaining in the rise of NGOs. According to both theories, individuals or groups organize self-help or social policy associations when they feel that either the government or the profit-making market or both will not or cannot effectively address their concerns such as poverty, education, environmental degradation and other issues (New World

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