Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. The collective term for a group of diplomats from a single country who reside in another country is a diplomatic mission. The collective body of all diplomats assigned to a particular country is the diplomatic corps.

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 and culture. 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 polite manner. The collective body of all diplomats of particular country is called that country's diplomatic service. 

Ambassador is the most senior diplomatic rank; a diplomatic mission headed by an ambassador is known as an embassy, with the exception of permanent missions at the United Nations, the Organization of American States, or other multilateral organizations, which are also headed by ambassadors.

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