The common misconception about diplomacy is that talking has disproportionately good implications when results should be the real test.
To make matters worse, Mr Axworthy's remarks in the Security Council about multilateral diplomacy and defining human security in more than military terms have not pleased American strategists.
Clinton, who returned from Asia on Sunday after her first overseas trip as secretary of state, called North Korea's nuclear program "the most acute challenge to stability in northeast Asia" and has said there is a "testing period" at present about how diplomacy can move forward.
And if you're going to be about cultural affairs and cultural diplomacy and you're going to be about traveling around the world, you represent something much larger than yourself.
Israel believes that diplomacy is about getting other governments to be nice to us.
But he spoke about the need for diplomacy while indicating that the American approach had been rebuffed.
It is fitting that her family secret is not about abuse or betrayal but about world history and diplomacy.
Yet their behavior presents Israel with an important lesson about the fundamentals of diplomacy that appear lost on our leaders.
Petraeus, and like the outgoing commander, understands the top job is as much about good communication and diplomacy as it is combat experience, officials said.
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Ms. MADELEINE ALBRIGHT (Former U.S. Secretary of State): Talking to governments about hard problems is why diplomacy matters.
Attempts by the UK and France to push through a UN Security Council resolution censuring Syria have faltered and this tells us much about the new realities of diplomacy in a "multi-polar" world.
This is the ultimate test of economic diplomacy and arguments about the peace dividend: does trade, once established politically, have the power to sustain itself and to maintain peaceful, open borders even as political environments change?
We will pursue this diplomacy with no illusions about the Iranian regime.
His big ideas are about Israeli society, not Israeli diplomacy.
He also wrote extensively about almost everything else: history, diplomacy, French literature, German literature (in this case, on the lack of it), religion, philosophy and the practical arts of government (in which he himself excelled).
The other diplomacy I have strong views about, and we've touched on it here, is in reconciling the Sunnis - I mean they were completely disenfranchised, as Larry mentioned, as a result of the constitutional referendum and the general election.
Such agencies can promote foresight, and help governments think harder about the consequences of failure (unlike traditional diplomacy, which likes muddling along).
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Diplomacy-wise, was there any issue or concern about that visit in terms of how the U.S. goes forward?
She spoke about jazz's influence during Soviet rule in her birthplace, Czechoslovakia, and its relevance for cultural diplomacy today.
For all his previous tough talk about pre-emption, Mr Bush says for now that he hopes to sort out North Korea with diplomacy, not force.
Mr Speaker, emerging from all the experience and lessons learnt of the last decade is the clear conclusion that we are strongest when we combine the resources of our military, police and security and intelligence services with effective diplomacy and when we work closely with international partners to confront the new global challenges and bring about change.
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