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Diplomacy is not only a technique of foreign policy implementation, but also an instrument by which other techniques-military and economic- can be successfully deployed. Discuss the significance of diplomacy in the conduct of foreign relations.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Diplomacy is the management of relations between states by negotiation. Hans J. Morgenthau ranked the quality of diplomacy as the most important, if most unstable, element of national power: it is to national power in peace what strategy and tactics are to it in war, because it combines the other elements into effect. The statement…

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  • Diplomacy as a technique of implementation
  • Diplomacy as the enabler of other techniques
  • Significance in contemporary foreign relations
  • Limits
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