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?
Peace diplomacy in the Middle East has been an intense activity for decades.
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The development came just hours after the U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke ended another day of shuttle diplomacy aimed at keeping the Dayton peace process on track.
Not long ago, the Clintonites thought they could leave Kosovo diplomacy to their European partners, who led the peace talks at Rambouillet.
Mr Barak dismisses any notion of lame duckness and insists that his peace diplomacy will continue vigorously during the months ahead.
For years, the conventional wisdom held that the key to enhancing our security lay in peace diplomacy aimed at producing arms control agreements.
"There's no doubt there are big gaps here between those who want to kill whales and those who want to conserve them, " says New Zealand's whaling commissioner Sir Geoffrey Palmer, whose background in international law and diplomacy is one of the reasons why the peace deal is even on the agenda.
Mr. Netanyahu, too, inevitably, will continue diplomacy, but not the particular approach to the "peace process" symbolized by Shimon Peres' embracing Yasser Arafat and declaring, as Mr. Carter did with Mr. Brezhnev, that the two men actually share a vision of peace.
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National security dynamics have shifted since the Cold War, but seeking peace through strength and fostering commerce abroad should still guide diplomacy.
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The Germans reckon they are playing a weighty role in the war, whether in their contribution to the military effort, in their generosity to refugees, or in their peace-seeking diplomacy.
Couple that with the words in the Norwegian Nobel Committee's citation that the peace prize is being awarded to Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples" and that they have "attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons, " and the message is clear.
The Institute also aims to engage citizens in diplomacy and to encourage them to participate in building peace through research, practice and public engagement.
Meanwhile, the senior U.S. envoy who had spearheaded efforts to get Milosevic to sign onto a Kosovo peace deal said Thursday the Yugoslav president was "a formidable adversary" who chose bombings over diplomacy.
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Various U.N. resolutions, numerous shuttle diplomacy missions and the Oslo process have all been predicated on the land-for-peace proposition.
This week's diplomatic breakthrough brings us that much closer to realizing peace on the Korean Peninsula and gives hope that denuclearization there and elsewhere can be still achieved through diplomacy.
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