Diplomacy

Diplomacy Over Force A common ideal taught to children is to use words over violence to dissolve conflicts. If someone makes someone else upset, resolving disagreement through diplomacy and not force is almost common sense to most people. In most countries, using force is an action that is looked down upon, if not prohibited. Yet, responsible men who are powerful enough to lead countries often seem to start wars to resolve national disputes. Initially known as the Great War, World War I is one…

The article Squanto’s Role in Pilgrim Diplomacy discusses the importance of the Native American named Squanto, in his duty as mediator between the Pilgrims of New England and the Indian tribes in the surrounding area. In the article the author, Leonard A. Adolf, argues that without the assistance of Squanto in the encounters between Native Americans and English men, the success of the Plymouth colony would not have been as great. Adolf, professor of history at Oregon State University, further…

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because of the territorial dispute over the Mississippi River and Trans-Appalachian West. Fortunately, the support the Americans did receive was enough to succeed in their struggle. As large as an impact diplomacy had on the American Revolution, the American Revolution had an even greater impact on diplomacy. The staunch alliances between America and European nations that we know today formed in the malleable international community following the Revolution. America formed an economic alliance…

William Appleman Williams’ essay The Tragedy of American Diplomacy centers around America expansion, and the idealistic and economic motivators which inspired it. Williams frames his narrative with his critique of the idea that expansion was one of the main ways in which America could extend its virtues throughout the world, and create a new era of peace. He decides the true tragedy of American diplomacy is that actions undertaken in the name of humanitarianism, self determination, and peace…

Book Review Quiet Diplomacy from Cairo to Tokyo in The Twilight of Imperialism is an autobiography of the Armin Meyer who served the U.S. for thirty years as a Foreign Service officer and an ambassador. As he was born in Indiana and grew up in Illinois and schooled in Ohio, he said, he was much influenced by the Midwest culture. Fort Wayne, Indian is his birth place, and he lived there for nine years. He was sent to live with his Aunts when his mother passed away. Lincoln, Illinois became…

From the original thirteen colonies in 1776 to the forty-five states at the turn of the twentieth century, the land that makes up the United States drastically changed through fairly rapid and steady expansion to the west and south. Between 1889 and 1893, six new states entered the Union, which represented the most in any four year period of the country’s history. The history of growth and expansion helped shape American culture and the average American’s viewpoint, which was ready to move…

Jennings Bryan, Wilson believed in a foreign policy called “moralistic diplomacy”, which based foreign decisions on moral as opposed to material values. Uprisings in Latin America called for the use of this policy to spread democratic values, but the negative effects of moralistic diplomacy overshadowed this idealistic view. Although Wilson’s foreign policy protected American securities in Latin America, moralistic diplomacy mainly caused prolonged hostilities between the United States and Latin…

President Carter had consistently argued that the Islamic students likely took hostage all the missing diplomats for negotiation purposes. For this reason, reports about the rescue of the six by the Canadian government would ignite a media explosion with the news that the Carter administration was either inept or was lying to the public. Apparently, the public, as well as the media, were caught by surprise when they were rescued. According to Nacos, the reporter’s descriptions, background…

William Howard Taft: Dollar Diplomacy and Taft-Knox Foreign Policy Taft shared the same view as Knox, a corporate lawyer who founded the giant conglomerate U.S. steel. The goal of the Dollar Diplomacy was to create stability and order that would best promote American commercial interests. Knox and Taft had a goal to improve financial opportunities, but they also wanted to use private capital to further U.S. interests overseas. The Dollar Diplomacy failed to counteract economic instability and…