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Essay Instructions: Current Events and U.S. diplomacy

Describe the current U.S. diplomatic approach to North Korea.
Contrast and compare the two (2) relationships.

Cite at least 4 reputable sources not including wikipedia, encyclopedias, or dictionaries.
Be typed, double spaced, using times new roman font size 12 with one-inch margins on all sides, references must follow APA format.

Essay Instructions: The paper should address the relevance of the assigned readings to our understanding of diplomacy generally and to the evolution of diplomatic practice and theory specifically. The paper must include two sections: a brief summary of the main points and ideas presented in the assigned readings and an incisive critical analysis of (i.e., a response to) those points and ideas.Each section should be clearly identified as "Summary" and "Analysis".

The assigned reading is: Kissinger, Diplomacy

Specific Chapters are: 5, 23, 30.

Essay Instructions: need book report for The Diplomacy of Annexation: Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War by David M.Pletcher. Author's theses and evidence and arguments he uses to support his theses.

Essay Instructions: Clarify the concept of telecommunications!!!
Telecommunications- Mode of communication overlong distances that requires
human agency only in the sending and receiving of messages Not IN THE
CONVEYANCE
- Telephone diplomacy is often used as a tool during times of 'crisis'
- Radio, television and the internet have proven to be valuable source of
telecommunications as a means of indirect communication

Examine advantages and disadvantages of telecommunications in crisis
diplomacy and routine diplomacy..
Some Advantages and disadvantages of telecommunication in crisis and routine
diplomacy?

In crisis diplomacy

TELEPHONE
- advantages: ease of use, personal communication between heads of state,
immediate response, certainty message has got through, deniability
- disadvantages - Difficult between hostile states, remarks may be
misconstrued, unanticipated issues may arise
- examples Greece-Turkey crisis 1974, Reagan's visit to Germany 1985
Regan-Assad exchange

MASS MEDIA
Advantages sending a message to a large number of allies, sending of a
public commitment adds reassurance, use if other means of communications
collapse
- Disadvantages Distortion of information ,loss of secrecy
examples- Haiti 1986, baghdad radio 'peace offer'1991
TELEGRAPH
- ADVANTAGES- MORE ACCURATE STATEMENTS THAN EXCHANGES OVER THE TELEPHONE,
less scope for comments to be construed
-disadvantages- slower and less personal than the telephone
- example;: Isarel-PLO talks breakdown 1994

IN ROUTINE DIPLOMACY
Advantages - messages in speeches by heads of states and senior officials
can be targeted at foreign governments and transmitted by the mass media
- useful for maintaining regular contact between states with strong common
interests

Disadvantages - logistical difficulties
- misperceptions and slips of tongue in telephone
diplomacy
- eaves dropping
- insensitivity to all forms of non-verbal communication
examples- Showing US-UK relations healthy after differences over Bosnia and
Northern Ireland Feb. 1994
- Reagan's late night call to Thatcher regarding the Falklands
1982

xx--EXAMINE THE IMPLICATIONS OF ROUTINE DIPLOMACY AND CRISIS DIPLOMACY ON
RESIDENT MISSIONS/EMBASSIES!!!---xxxx

VIDEO-CONFERENCING--consider the implications for diplomacy of developments
in video-conferencing

-Video-conferencing is becoming sophisticated and secure, the UN is already
using it to create 'virtual meeting'
- capable of calling meetings as no travelling involved
- However, void of the human touch has been claimed that negotiations are
best done face to face in difficult circumstances

Please include citations and bibliography