(n.) The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.
(n.) Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.
(n.) The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Had he learned diplomacy, his career might have suffered less.
(2) The index, now in its third year, was compiled by the PR firm Portland Communications in conjunction with the University of Southern California school of public diplomacy.
(3) And the larger point is this: it is diplomacy.. that can best solve disputes like this in the 21st century.
(4) The pope, whose foray into diplomacy helped spur negotiations between the US and Cuba , is expected to address the topic in a speech before the UN in New York in September.
(5) High stakes is a terrible cliche, but this is about as high stakes as diplomacy gets.
(6) There was diplomacy, all right, but it was diplomacy aimed at licensing war.
(7) "My definition of diplomacy is to create space for dialogue," he said.
(8) In this manner the society succeeded in attracting many thousands of workers to its meetings and worked without openly alienating employers, trade unions, the government, or the medical profession--a remarkable feat of diplomacy.
(9) 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy' Read more The crowded courtroom was growing increasing stifling as the air-conditioner could not cope with mid-August heat.
(10) His message was echoed by Albert Royo, of Diplocat, the Catalan body responsible for public diplomacy.
(11) It was a turning point in history, and was a written text promoting peace and diplomacy.
(12) The history of the Gujarat riots and the RSS connection is not going to simplify diplomacy anywhere in the Islamic world.
(13) Israel has repeatedly threatened to take military action if diplomacy fails to contain Iran’s nuclear aspirations.
(14) Both sides, wearied by decades of fruitless diplomacy, cautioned that an initial meeting – scheduled for the "next week or so" in Washington, according to Kerry – will not automatically lead to productive negotiations.
(15) For Merkel, the meeting is the start of a week of whirlwind diplomacy that will see her meeting heads of state in Tallin, Prague and Warsaw before hosting first the leaders of the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and then the presidents of Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia at Schloss Meseberg, a baroque castle outside Berlin.
(16) Rightly, Miliband gives diplomacy more time, while those in his party, like Ben Bradshaw on these pages on Thursday, who support military intervention cite their leader to make the case.
(17) In the first comments to come out of Damascus since the accord to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons, brokered by Russia and the US, was announced, Ali Haidar, paid fulsome tribute to its longstanding ally, praising "the achievement of the Russian diplomacy and the Russian leadership".
(18) Some will argue that Turnbull needed to avoid megaphone diplomacy – that is, direct public criticism of Trump’s refugee bans – to preserve the US deal to take refugees off Nauru and Manus Island.
(19) They have learned from this and dedicate a lot of effort toward diplomacy and government cooperation.
(20) The entire Middle East will benefit if this is the new normal.” Hossein Rassam, a London-based Iranian analyst, said the lifting of sanctions would bring two years of intensive diplomacy to fruition.
Statecraft
Definition:
(n.) The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is creating added concern about the career civil servants who are in these agencies, wondering what they are in for.” Smith, now director of strategy and statecraft at the Center for a New American Security, added: “Many of them are starting to look at other options; some of the younger people are looking to switch careers, return to graduate school, try and go abroad.
(2) This is why it has survived so long, although, ironically, it lay in an oubliette of relative obscurity until denounced by a Huguenot exile, who claimed that it was Catherine de' Medici's favourite book and a work that encouraged bloodthirsty, cynical statecraft.
(3) The demise of statecraft goes hand in hand with the rise of neoliberalism, and its creed that whatever can be done by the private sector should.
(4) So the rugby campaign was one of Mandela's boldest strokes of statecraft, no less impressive for the fact that the euphoria he achieved could barely begin to extinguish three centuries of racial antagonism.
(5) Writing in the FT , Mr Osborne's biographer attributed political statecraft to his subject – his calculation that, by rolling back the reach of public provision, he can use austerity to change "the makeup of the electorate itself" and entrench support for his cuts.
(6) Federal and local statecraft against substance production and use remains crude and does not show signs of the increasing sophistication observed elsewhere in the world.
(7) So what has 40 years of neoliberal statecraft achieved?
(8) They both have little time for international norms of diplomacy and statecraft, preferring to stand outside the western consensus to strike a nationalist pose.
(9) Statecraft doesn't even get its own entry in Wikipedia, and when it's pressed into service at all, it's in reference to summitry or wars.
(10) It is incredible.” Schell said he believed the Communist party leader had modelled himself on Han Feizi, a philosopher known as China’s Machiavelli whose basic maxim was: “Keep it mysterious – don’t be transparent.” “I think Xi Jinping’s whole fundament of statecraft is to keep his cards very close to his chest, keep everybody a little bit uncertain and off balance and to project thereby an air of greater authority,” Schell said.
(11) But these are largely the products of statecraft, not sinfulness.
(12) A bold political statecraft would fuse them – for one election at least.
(13) No tool of statecraft should be taken off the table, but Senator McCain would continue a failed policy that has seen Iran strengthen its position, advance its nuclear program, and stockpile 150 kilos of low enriched uranium.
(14) His loud rejection of the Iraq war raised popular expectations that he would move US statecraft in a more dovish direction.
(15) Jeff Moss, one of America’s most celebrated hackers, who is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, said that it was also unclear whether Clinton’s private email was connected to other servers.
(16) It is the greatest single failure of modern statecraft.
(17) Great statecraft and imagination would then be required from Kiev to rebuild an effectively federal Ukrainian state, one in which people who identify themselves as Russians could again feel reasonably at home.
(18) The last great moment of statecraft was three years ago, when Alistair Darling hauled in crisis-hit bankers for what Fred Goodwin described as a "drive-by shooting", and all but nationalised the two biggest high-street names.
(19) It’s a free-market conception of statecraft.” Or you could see it as a way of justifying the continued existence of government in an anti-government age.
(20) That should not mean, however, that we in the west can continue to duck the long-term implications of Putin's deeply hostile statecraft – not least because whoever succeeds Putin may become even more nationalistic and trigger-happy.