The most important theorem for the diplomats is that of William Shakespeare. “The need of a long spoon that eats with the devil.” The long spoon mean patience and distance. In the ideal case, it looks like this: Before the devil will be eaten, and prepare employees on both sides all of the hair small. Nothing is left to chance, or to further the art of negotiations. The final statement is ready. The Meeting itself is only the Form and photo thing. The Summit? To Be A Success.
The set of Shakespeare comes from the fact that the “Comedy of errors”. The case of the high diplomacy looks the other way. Show two examples from the past week. In Hanoi, US President, Donald Trump, and the “Supreme leader” of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un came together. It was already their second direct encounter. Previously, they had threatened with a rocket and red buttons.
But the summit failed, the dream of peace, disarmament and an end to the sanctions fell through, Trump went off prematurely. Had to home, he can be a criticism of his cozy like. Finally, Kim is a brutal dictator who wants to establish his country as a nuclear power and human rights, with boots. Has disgraced itself the “leader of the free world”?
Three days earlier, the heads of state of the Arab League and the European Union gathered in Egypt to their first joint summit. However, at the final press conference, it came to a head, triggered by the debate on human rights in the Arab countries. Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi protested against the teachings. His country to respect the values of the Europeans, he said, “so our values are respected as well”. Regardless of this dissonance, the two sides agreed on closer cooperation. Is Europe soft on despots?
In a world, there is also the devil, long spoon, only a non-military Alternative – pressure, Isolation, sanctions. The advantage of thus morally on a high horse, however, diminished by the failure history of this course. Sanctions have worked, neither Saddam Hussein nor Slobodan Milosevic, Vladimir Putin, is also unimpressed. Whether or not Burma, Cuba, Zimbabwe, or the Sudan: for the most part, the Belief is deceptive, as a result of economic retaliation of a Regime to its knees. South Africa is the exception that proves the rule.
loyalty to one’s Principles not to discourage Talk
it Would be better, Trump would return to the confrontational policy towards North Korea? Should refuse the EU’s talks with the Arab League? No, twice. Too easy Rigorismen be confused with loyalty to one’s Principles. Out of necessity, to have no Plan, is often made a virtue.
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As of the ardent anti-Richard Nixon in 1972, a Communist, went to China, and the red-hot Communists of Mao Zedong met, he had to swallow after 22 years of hostility quite a few toads. As Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986 at Reykjavik, after four rounds of talks not even on, a Declaration of intent as could be, seemed to be a race to be the inevitable upgrade. As the end of 1992, the Israelis and the Palestinians in London and Oslo came to vorfrieden talks, and regarded the PLO as a terrorist organization, to maintain the contacts according to Israeli law was strictly forbidden.
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Historically, these meetings have been, despite the meager results. You have to set the dynamics in motion, due to the frozen conflicts was thawed out by. How long something will take, cannot be predicted. But now two suspicious, egomaniac alpha animals such as Trump and Kim more from each other, is a good message. You will learn about the efforts of diplomacy. On the setbacks, Europeans should not respond sardonically, but the course is, in principle, be answered in the affirmative. What is right in the policy, there must be no question of personal sympathies. Silence is silver, Talk is Gold.
