Diplomacy

Biden’s reckless Syria bombing is not the diplomacy he promised
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Feb
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Biden’s reckless Syria bombing is not the diplomacy he promised

BY: Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J. S. Davies* PEJOURNAL - The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief. Why is this administration bombing the sovereign nation of Syria? Why is it bombing "Iranian-backed militias" who pose absolutely no threat to the United States and are actually involved in fighting ISIS? If this is about getting more leverage vis-à-vis Iran, why hasn’t the Biden administration just done what it said it would do: rejoin the Iran nuclear deal and de-escalate the Middle East conflicts? According to the Pentagon, the US…
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Negotiation in the style of science and technology diplomats
20
Jan
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Negotiation in the style of science and technology diplomats

BY: Sayed Alireza Behbahani PEJOURNAL - According to the Oxford Glossary, science means intellectual and practical activities, including the systematic study of structure and behavior in the physical and natural world through observation and experimentation, and diplomacy, according to the Glossary of Diplomacy, the main means of communication between states and empowering them in relationships. During the last one or two centuries, very drastic changes have taken place in human life and most of them have been related to the birth of a technology, such as steam engine revolution, communication revolution, globalization, electricity, space conquest, polio vaccine, penicillin and etc.…
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NOURNEWS: Europe Seeks to Repeat the Failed Experience of “Coercive Diplomacy” against Iran / Knee-to-Neck Policy Does Not Respond Here!
18
Jun
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NOURNEWS: Europe Seeks to Repeat the Failed Experience of “Coercive Diplomacy” against Iran / Knee-to-Neck Policy Does Not Respond Here!

PEJOURNAL - According to Western media reports over the past two days, the European Troika is finalizing anti-Iranian resolutions for approval by the International Atomic Energy Agency's Governing Council, which will likely be put to a vote on Friday, despite opposition from China and Russia. Considered in the context of US menus for disrupting JCPOA, the resolution is seen as a new step in increasing pressure on Iran, and it is natural that Iran cannot fail to react seriously to this European behavior. Due to the negative reactions of Iran, China and Russia to the resolution, representatives of the European…
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Foreign Affairs: America’s Opportunity in the Middle East; Diplomacy Could Succeed Where Military Force Has Failed
12
Jun
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Foreign Affairs: America’s Opportunity in the Middle East; Diplomacy Could Succeed Where Military Force Has Failed

U.S. foreign policy hands are rightly grappling with how engaged the United States should be in the Middle East. Thought-provoking essays by Martin Indyk (in The Wall Street Journal) and Mara Karlin and Tamara Cofman Wittes (in Foreign Affairs) have argued that the United States has few remaining vital interests—those worth going to war over—in the region. Washington should “do less” in the Middle East, as Karlin and Wittes put it, and lighten the U.S. footprint because, as the headline of Indyk’s essay noted, it “isn’t worth it.” Gone are the days when 180,000 U.S. troops fought in Iraq or when spiking…
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