In fact, this is again U.S. government, big-power diplomacy on behalf of the corporate elites.
The greatest challenge for big-power diplomacy today is non-proliferation, keeping shut the door to the nuclear club.
Once all the parties had been safely corralled in Ohio, he unleashed a classic 21-day exercise in lock-up, great-power diplomacy.
It has not extended to the traditional business of big-power diplomacy.
Mr Schroeder has ignored warnings from US leaders and forged, in effect, a rival axis of power and diplomacy.
As Obama seeks to stabilize the region, his administration has been advocating multilateralism and stressing "smart power" diplomacy by using all the tools of foreign policy available.
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As for Mr Obama, it is hard to imagine an incoming president better placed to reach over the heads of Hamas's leaders and restore the waning belief of Palestinians in the power of diplomacy.
He's never taken the option of using military force off the table, but he's also stated a preference for the soft power of diplomacy without explaining how he would create the leverage to stop Iran.
To make sure you're not bearing the burden of our security alone, we're enlisting all elements of our national power -- diplomacy, development, and a positive vision of American leadership in the world.
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Asia is one area where the smart power approach has paid off - a delicate balance between diplomacy, military ties with allies and support for reforms and reformers such as Burma's Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Rarely, if ever, is diplomacy successful without the strong support of the other instruments of national power.
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?
Mr Hennessy is skilled at detecting great movements in the tectonic plates of politics and diplomacy, and his account of the sweep of a decade in which Britain ceased to be a great power is compelling.
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