The issue of hidden baggage in diplomatic language - power, concepts and constructs, international and national law - is the landscape in which the diplomat then exercises his skill. Diplomacy then is an act of recognition first. It is an acknowledgement of the realities that surround the process, in particular the hidden baggage. Even more, though, diplomacy is an act of intuition. It is finding ones way in a landscape often stark, often forbidding. For this you have no patent process or medicine, and you never have a certainty of success. Changes in the weather, or changes in the temperature, a hail of stone, or an avalanche can do you great harm or bring your efforts to nought. But thats the fun of the challenge, and of diplomacy.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:53:48 +0000
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