Are there issues in world politics that cannot, even in principle, be resolved through diplomatic means? In other words, are there limits to diplomacy?
I think that theoretically in some sort of future earth everything could be resolved by negotiation between diplomats. In the current global society that we live in, however, I don’t think that in practice everything can be solved through diplomatic means. There are some people who just won’t listen, and there are also some issues that people are just not willing to compromise on. Currently many countries are showing that they are unwilling to bend even a little hen it comes to subject involving religion and how religion should be combined with the other aspects of a society.
Also, countries are often unwilling to compromise when they have been doing something one way for a very long time and the negotiations try and change how they do things. Another issue that often hinders the diplomatic process seems to be that countries that are in powerful positions are often less willing to solve some issues in a diplomatic way if it is a threat to their position of power. One example that we saw o this at NSLC was the reform of the United Nations Security Council. There are many who believe that the Security Council needs reform, but it would be virtually impossible to pass any reforms because currently the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom hold more powerful positions than the other countries and they would veto anything that threatened their power.
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