To Prevent in Oppose to Cure

The new diplomacy as a whole can be seen as a preventative medicine, which seeks to prevent diseases in oppose to cure them. It seeks to reach the maximum possible of the implementation of its own interest, rather to strengthen its own power in the conflict situation that has already occurred. Yes, diplomacy has failed many times, but it has succeed many times as well. It has reached failure because it was not wanted to succeed. Throughout the history e.g. when war was the normal activity of kings, the task of diplomacy was not to prevent it, but to bring it about at the most propitious moment. Then again, when diplomacy was used for the purpose of preventing war, they have often succeeded. (e.g. Congress of Berlin 1878). It would be wrong to say, that achievement of peace in the world was a goal of all the nations all the in times, achieving the situations of war were fueled by economical advantage, and driven by furious ideological powers.

The revival of diplomacy reflects in its publicity, and fragmentation of international issues- emerging of low politics. It turned the state from a ‘night-watchman’ to a ‘welfare’ one, which is more related on well being and providing less autonomy for professional diplomats- the liberal view appears. Majority of votes achieving by bringing non-state and international actors into the arena of international relations, which deals not only with issues of security, but with the problems of the other spheres as well.

Nevertheless, H. J. Morgenthau (even though his comments mostly touched the period of the Cold War) argues, that it would tend to aggravate, rather than mitigate international conflicts and leave the prospect for peace dimmed rather than brightened. When diplomats have the world as their audience, they do not speak to each other anymore. And to convince the world, where you have a variety of individual actors, which have their own preferences and engagement with the other actors as well as to find common ground of agreement seems to be more difficult task than to agree to a compromise or persuade each other.

No good card or chess player would reveal his moves, and diplomatic negotiations are similar to these games and important respects. Neither it is possible to negotiate in public; the presence or absence of negotiations, however, cannot be hidden from people in the new diplomacy.

Diplomacy served as an instrument of the struggle for power among political entities, which try to maintain orderly and peaceful relations among themselves. If sovereign nations want to preserve peace and order in their relations, they must to persuade, negotiate, and exert pressure upon each other; engage in, cultivate and rely upon diplomatic procedures. The ability to persuade is central to art of diplomacy.

Winston Churchill in one of his speeches “Will there be war” where he called for peace through accommodation, claimed, that it is idle to argue with the Communists. It is fair, however, to deal with them on a realistic basis, and they will keep the bargains as long as it is in their interest to do so.