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Comment: Open versus Secret Diplomacy.

  • UPSC 1992
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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The controversy was born of the First World War, whose origins were widely blamed on the web of secret alliance commitments. Thomas Woodrow Wilson's first of the Fourteen Points (8 January 1918) demanded "open covenants of peace, openly arrived at", with diplomacy proceeding "always frankly and in the public view". The debate since then has…

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  • The case for open diplomacy
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