The legendary paddler is often invited to give speeches on career-building and the history of diplomacy.
Yet the high calling of diplomacy is to find antidotes to the rivalries that poison geopolitics.
Moreover, some would argue that, whatever the old rules of diplomacy, times have moved on.
Often aid has been used as a tool of diplomacy, or to boost British exports.
Though with both countries still in uncompromising mood, the cause of diplomacy may not advance very far.
I've never regretted those first steps out of my comfort zone and into the world of diplomacy.
France, for example, never imagined that French would cease to be the international language of diplomacy and business.
She may have a purely instrumental view of diplomacy, but at least she thinks it has a role.
So Lady Ashton has had to fall back on the more familiar tools of diplomacy, development and defence.
The Obama administration has been divided over the utility of diplomacy with North Korea since taking office in 2009.
When a country sponsors a fashion show, you run the risk of diplomacy drowning the fashion part of it.
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France, for example, could never imagine that French would cease to be the international language of diplomacy and business.
It will likely be the last round of diplomacy with Tehran until after the June elections, U.S. officials believe.
Unlike Latin and French, German was never the language of diplomacy and culture.
The German strategist Von Clausewitz made the famous observation that war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means.
Accentuating and cultivating the areas of agreement, while resolving or minimizing the differences, is the essence of diplomacy and statecraft.
Mr Obuchi is now paying the price for trying to drag such delicate issues of diplomacy into crass election politics.
Yet their behavior presents Israel with an important lesson about the fundamentals of diplomacy that appear lost on our leaders.
But Mr Gates is surely right to believe that no form of diplomacy succeeds without consistency, patience and long-term investment.
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And concede that sometimes it takes both overwhelming force -- and a touch of diplomacy -- to tear down a wall.
That doesn't mean there is overwhelming support for Obama's style of diplomacy.
Slowly but surely, you might conclude, the normal tools of diplomacy are being brought to bear, removing the need for anything worse.
Indeed, the language of diplomacy proved to have a solution for everything.
And I would think that that would have consequences perhaps in (unintelligible) foreign aid, different kinds of diplomacy, a more calculated response to terrorism.
At the time, Rashomon, the tale of a violent act refracted through the conflicting testimony of four witnesses, was a significant act of diplomacy.
We inhabit a world where the electronic machinations of diplomacy and national interest can be sent anonymously to a drop box at any time.
Until we seriously address this issue, no amount of diplomacy or aid will help us win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
In many cases it relies on time-honored tactics of diplomacy, offering rewards to governments that support American interests and threatening retaliation against those that refuse.
But the BBC's Jim Muir, monitoring the conflict from Beirut, says that despite the huge amount of diplomacy going on, there is little actual movement.
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