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diplomacy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diplomacy \Di*plo"ma*cy\, n. [F. diplomatie. This word, like supremacy, retains the accent of its original. See Diploma.]
The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.
Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.
The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body. [R.]
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, from French diplomatie, formed from diplomate "diplomat" (on model of aristocratie from aristocrate), from Latin adjective diplomaticos, from diploma (genitive diplomatis) "official document conferring a privilege" (see diploma; for sense evolution, see diplomatic).\n\nIt is obvious to any one who has been in charge of the interests of his country abroad that the day secrecy is abolished negotiations of any kind will become impossible.
[Jules Cambon, "The Diplomatist" (transl. Christopher Rede Turner), 1931]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiate alliances, treaty, agreements etc., bilaterally or multilaterally, between states and sometimes international organisms, or even between polities with varying status, such as those of monarchs and their princely vassals 2 tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility.
WordNet
n. negotiation between nations [syn: diplomatic negotiations]
subtly skillful handling of a situation [syn: delicacy, discreetness, finesse]
wisdom in the management of public affairs [syn: statesmanship, statecraft]
Wikipedia
Diplomacy is a 1926 American silent mystery film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The movie is an update of the 19th century play Diplomacy, by Victorien Sardou. Marshall Neilan directs his then wife Blanche Sweet who stars. A copy of the film is preserved at the Library of Congress.
Diplomacy is a 1916 silent film drama produced by the Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 19th Century stage play Diplomacy by Victorien Sardou, which had enjoyed revivals and road shows for decades. This film stars Doro reprising her Broadway role. The film is now lost with just a fragment, 1 reel, remaining at the Library of Congress.
The story was filmed again in 1926 as Diplomacy by Paramount with Blanche Sweet starring and her then husband Marshall Neilan directing.
Diplomacy is a 2014 Franco-German historical drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and adapted from the play Diplomatie by Cyril Gely. The film premiered at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on 12 February 2014. It was also screened at the Telluride Film Festival in August 2014. It won the César Award for Best Adaptation at the 40th César Awards.
Diplomacy is a 1994 book written by former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It is a sweep of the history of international relations and the art of diplomacy, largely concentrating on the 20th century and the Western World. Kissinger, as a great believer in the realist school of international relations, focuses strongly upon the concepts of the balance of power in Europe prior to World War I, raison d'État and Realpolitik throughout the ages of diplomatic relations. Kissinger also provides insightful critiques of the counter realist diplomatic tactics of collective security, developed in the Charter of the League of Nations, and self determination, also a principle of the League. Kissinger also examines the use of the sphere of influence arguments put forth by the Soviet Union in Eastern and Southern Europe after World War II; an argument that has been maintained by contemporary Russian foreign relations with regard to Ukraine, Georgia and other former Soviet satellites in Central Asia.
The history begins in Europe in the 17th century, but quickly advances up to the World Wars and then the Cold War. Kissinger refers to himself numerous times in the book, especially when recounting the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford presidencies.
Kissinger dedicated the book to the men and women of the United States Foreign Service.
Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states.
Diplomacy may also refer to:
- Diplomacy (book), a 1994 book by Henry Kissinger about the art of diplomacy.
- Diplomacy (game), a World War I themed strategic board game by Allan B. Calhamer.
- Diplomacy (computer game), a turn based computer strategy game.
- Diplomacy, the second "micro-expansion" to the PC strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire
- Diplomacy (1916 film), a 1916 silent film by Sidney Olcott
- Diplomacy (1926 film), a 1926 American silent film by Marshall Neilan
- Diplomacy (2014 film), a 2014 Franco-German film by Volker Schlöndorff
Diplomacy may also refer to:
- Citizen diplomacy
- Cowboy diplomacy
- Digital diplomacy
- Economic diplomacy
- Facebook diplomacy
- Gunboat diplomacy
- Internet diplomacy
- Paradiplomacy
- Ping-pong diplomacy
- Preventive diplomacy
- Public diplomacy
- Shuttle diplomacy
- Track II diplomacy
- Transformational Diplomacy
Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases (players spend much of their time forming and betraying alliances with other players and forming beneficial strategies) and the absence of dice and other game elements that produce random effects. Set in Europe before the beginning of World War I, Diplomacy is played by two to seven players, each controlling the armed forces of a major European power (or, with fewer players, multiple powers). Each player aims to move his or her few starting units and defeat those of others to win possession of a majority of strategic cities and provinces marked as "supply centers" on the map; these supply centers allow players who control them to produce more units.
Diplomacy was the first commercially published game to be played by mail (PBM); only chess, which is in the public domain, saw significant postal (long distance) play earlier. Diplomacy was also the first commercially published game to generate an active hobby scene with amateur fanzines; only science-fiction, fantasy and comics fandom saw fanzines earlier. Competitive face-to-face Diplomacy tournaments have been held since the 1970s. Play of Diplomacy by e-mail (PBEM) has been widespread since the late 1980s.
Diplomacy has been published in the United States by Games Research, Avalon Hill, and Hasbro; the name is currently a registered trademark of Hasbro's Avalon Hill division. Diplomacy has also been licensed to various companies for publication in other countries. Diplomacy is also played on the Internet, adjudicated by a computer or a human gamemaster.
In its catalog, Avalon Hill advertised Diplomacy as John F. Kennedy and Henry Kissinger's favorite game. Kissinger described it as his favorite in an interview published in a games magazine. Legendary authors Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, and American broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite were also reported to be fans of the game.
Diplomacy (from the Greek , "official document conferring a privilege") is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics, culture, environment, and human rights. International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians. In an informal or social sense, diplomacy is the employment of tact to gain strategic advantage or to find mutually acceptable solutions to a common challenge, one set of tools being the phrasing of statements in a non-confrontational, or polite manner.
The scholarly discipline of diplomatics, dealing with the study of old documents, derives its name from the same source, but its modern meaning is quite distinct from the activity of diplomacy.
Usage examples of "diplomacy".
BY this time, the English Ambassage Extraordinary, three hundred strong, with its aching diplomacy and its groaning digestions, with its cliques, its amateurs, its professionals and with the Earl and Countess of Lennox, was already at Orleans, not much more than two hundred miles away.
It could have been her uncle Gerent lying there with his latest woman, too drunk to meet with the guild masters, too stupid to rely on diplomacy to listen to them.
The long arm, or perhaps one might better say the long purse, of diplomacy at last effected the release of the prisoners, but the Habsburgs were never to enjoy the guerdon of their outlay.
To compound the problem, Karne had early shown that he valued learning, diplomacy, and negotiation, as the Larga did.
Chens had survived through thousands of years to produce Linge by exercising caution, diplomacy, and by being useful to many Emperors.
Tom Ryfe congratulated himself on the success of this, his first step in a diplomacy leading to war, devoutly hoping that the friend to whom Mr.
It is so that men make little kingdoms for themselves, and an international power undarkened by diplomacy, undirected by parliaments.
The case put forward by the colonists was historically strong, and there was much to be said for the contention that they were entitled to everything they claimed: on any view they could rightly complain of a cruel injustice, so long as the indolence or incompetence of English diplomacy suffered a debatable land to survive in the teeth of an undebatable argument.
You see that I have sounded you well enough to be a competent adviser in this delicate and important affair, to which the most famous events in the annals of diplomacy are not to be compared.
This important action brings out much clever diplomacy, on the part of the bankrupt, his assignees, and his solicitor, among the contending interests which cross and jostle each other.
Beta Corvi assignment will require an unusual exercise of diplomacy on the part of both partners, as brain and brawn will be in direct contact with the Corviki throughout the mission.
Never had Madame Steno displayed diplomacy in the changes of her passions, and they had been numerous before the arrival of Gorka, to whom she had remained faithful two years, an almost incomprehensible thing!
The trustless, timorous lease of human life Warns me to hedge in my diplomacy.
The Aedile was by nature a patient man, and his training in diplomacy had inured him to waiting on the whims of others.
And in the meantime, with a perversity to confound the Franks, she secured the future of the Angevin empire and supplied the instruments of a diplomacy which, no less than force of arms, was to solidify the whole.