diplomat

(noun)

A person who is accredited, such as an ambassador, to officially represent a government in its relations with other governments or international organizations.

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Examples of diplomat in the following topics:

  • Diplomatic Consequences of the Congress of Vienna

  • Diplomatic Goals at the Paris Peace Conference

  • Diplomacy

    • International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians .
    • This was not always the case, with the U.S. maintaining official diplomatic ties with the ROC.
    • The Palestinian National Authority has its own diplomatic service.
    • However, Palestinian representatives in most Western countries are not accorded diplomatic immunity.
    • Explain how diplomatic recognition and informal diplomacy are tools of foreign policy

  • Chief Diplomat

    • Most diplomats work to recruit figures in other nations who might be able to give informal access to a country's leadership.
    • International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians.
    • Most diplomats work to recruit figures in other nations who might be able to give informal access to a country's leadership.
    • On some occasion a former holder of an official position continues to carry out an informal diplomatic activity after retirement.
    • In other cases, however, such informal diplomats seek to promote a political agenda different from that of the government currently in power.

  • The Diplomatic Revolution

    • The diplomatic change was triggered by a separation of interests between Austria, Britain, and France.
    • Under British diplomatic pressure, Maria Theresa ceded Parma to Spain and, more importantly, the valuable state of Silesia to Prussia.
    • Maria Theresa's diplomats, after securing French neutrality, actively began to establish an anti-Prussian coalition.
    • The fragile peace eventually resulted in the diplomatic revolution and collapsed when the Seven Years' War began only eight years after the treaty was signed.
    • Recall the parties involved in the Diplomatic Revolution and what changed between them as a result of this event

  • International Diplomacy

    • Navy's boarding of a British mail steamer to seize two Confederate diplomats.
    • Recognition of the Confederacy seemed at hand, but Lincoln released two detained Confederate diplomats, tensions cooled, and the Confederacy gained no advantage.
    • During the four years of its existence, the Confederate States of America asserted its independence and appointed dozens of diplomatic agents abroad.
    • Several European nations maintained diplomats in place who had been appointed to the United States, but no country appointed any diplomat to the Confederacy.
    • Confederate offers late in the war to end slavery in return for diplomatic recognition were not seriously considered by London or Paris.

  • The Bureaucracy

    • Coordinating and providing support for international activities of other U.S. agencies (local, state, or federal government), official visits overseas and at home, and other diplomatic efforts.
    • Providing automobile registration for non-diplomatic staff vehicles and the vehicles of diplomats of foreign countries having diplomatic immunity in the United States

  • The President

    • The president is very influential in US foreign policy, and directs the nation's war-waging, treaties, and diplomatic relations.
    • As America' chief diplomat, the president has the power to make treaties to be approved by the Senate.
    • Thus, the President is responsible for the appointment of both upper- and lower-level diplomats and foreign-aid workers.
    • As head of state, the President serves as the nation's top diplomat.
    • The President has the power to appoint diplomats (such as the Secretary of State), giving him or her substantial influence in US foreign policy.

  • Foreign Policies

    • Many in his own administration were opposed to these initiatives, and the more assertive human rights policy of the Carter years was blunted by the discord that ensued between, on one hand, Derian and State Department Policy Planning Director Anthony Lake, who endorsed human rights considerations as an enhancement of U.S. diplomatic effectiveness abroad, and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who held Cold War considerations as paramount.
    • National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and China expert Michel Oksenberg laid the groundwork for granting the People's Republic of China full diplomatic and trade relations.
    • In the Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, dated January 1, 1979, the United States transferred diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing.
    • The Camp David Accords were the result of 18 months of intense diplomatic efforts by Egypt, Israel, and the United States that began after Jimmy Carter became President.
    • The second part of the agreement, A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, provided that Israel return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt and evacuate Israeli inhabitants in exchange for diplomatic recognition and other guarantees.

  • The Cold War and Containment

    • The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by United States diplomat, George F.
    • Kennan was the diplomat behind the doctrine of containment.