The Evolution of Diplomacy

The core concept of diplomacy is the idea of communicating, interacting and negotiating with states and other international actors. Diplomacy as practised by foreign services and foreign ministries has seemed in recent years to be in decline. Governments in the post-collectivist age have had wielded few economising axes more deeply than in respect of their management overseas. At times the change has seemed more significant than the fact that diplomacy had always had other functions of diplomacy undergoes constant modification, and it depends, sometimes it goes slowly and sometimes fast. For centuries diplomacy was primarily concerned with matters of war and peace- the use of force-encompassing high politics and strategic interests. These are very imprortant in Diplomacy but a vast variety of other matters have been added to the diplomatci agenda, pertaining to economy, technology, education law and etc. Interdependence and globalization have greatly contributed to this development. I think that due to fastly growing and improving technology, the relations between countries, and its international relations between each other are incrising every day, and this is ofcourse made evolution in Diplomacy. "Diplomacy" is a term that is often used rather loosely, diplomacy is as a method of political interaction at the international level-and the techniques used to carry out political relations across international boundaries. Actually at the core of the meaning of the diplomacy there is idea of communicating, interacting, building contact, and negotiating with states and other international actors. The functions served by diplomacy are growing. Apart from representation, communication, negotiation , observation of the political situation abroad and also reporting diplomatic personnel in our age of mass communication must engage in a good deal of public relations. There is also a greater portion of international relations is bureaucratized , which creates opportunity for members of diplomatic missions to do a greater amount of administrative work. As the world is keep on improving the concepts of diplomacy are improving as well, the transnational and interantional relations is adding a new layer of diplomacy to international transactions. Usually there are (NGOs) nongovernmental organizations and multilateral corporations (MNCs). For example a number of international organizations : the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Childrens Fund ( UNICEF) have found it effective to work with NGOs. I think that in our days the existence of nongovernmental organizations and alos of multilateral corporations plays very important role and also have a big impact on Diplomacy negotiations, due to them the concept of diplomacy is now much broader.
Negotiations are also very important in Diplomatic negotiations, i would like to say that negotiations is a key concept of diplomacy, as interdependence increases, more diverse issues are brought to the international agenda. Contemporary negotiations, particularly in large multilateral settings are made more difficult by th ideological stance of many of the contributors. and this results in reducing the ability or even the desire to look for a compromise. In addition i want to mention that that comparing to previous times the concept of diplomacy is now much broader and wider.

Reference: The Dynamics of Diplomacy, Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux,page 2-5