Gdynia, Poland

Diplomacy

Dyplomacja

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
Subject area: social
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Diplomacy
Diplomacy 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 a full range of topical issues. International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians. David Stevenson reports that by 1900 the term "diplomats" also covered diplomatic services, consular services and foreign ministry officials.
Diplomacy
Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest things in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg, The Reflex.
Diplomacy
May the pens of the diplomats not ruin again what the people have attained with such exertions.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, After the Battle of Waterloo (1815).
Diplomacy
DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1948), p. 72 (originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book).
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