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  Global Diplomacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Global Diplomacy This twelve-player variant takes place on a map of the world.
Fin de Siecle Global diplomacy in the late 19th century.
Diplomacy Ludomaniac Strategie und Verhandlungen bei der größten deutschsprachige Diplomacy-Community.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Global_Diplomacy.html   (360 words)

  
 Global Diplomacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Global Diplomacy (GD) and Age of Discovery (AoD) are two variants of a play-by-email wargame, run by E-Mail Games.
The smallest units are of corps and squadron size.
Whereas Global Diplomacy (and Global Diplomacy 2) attempt to simulate a world war, on Earth during the era of New Imperialism, Age of Discovery uses a randomly created map and world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Global_Diplomacy   (127 words)

  
 Travelling Salesmen of Diplomacy - Global Policy Forum - Globalization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
One of the consequences of the new globalisation has been the emergence of elites, themselves globalised, but semi-detached from their societies of origin and imbued with a sense of mastery of the new global environment.
For them, it is particularly wasteful to play traditional Westphalian diplomacy, particularly since it serves as a screen behind which the big and the rich deploy their economic diplomacy.
A diplomacy of a "third type", based on foresight and initiative in the face of the logic we have described, is possible, at least theoretically (6).
www.globalpolicy.org /globaliz/econ/diplo.htm   (2085 words)

  
 GLOBAL NATURAL DISASTERS
Furthermore, scientific certainty on global warming was even less developed than in the case of ozone depletion; full scientific consensus had yet to emerge on the consequences of global warming (changes in agriculture, rise of sea levels, etc).
But preventive diplomacy does not end with the establishment of regimes as such; preventive diplomacy requires that regimes are not only used for the task they were entrusted with but also that they are improved whenever the need arises; they need to grow as living organisms.
Diplomacy in respect of the „global commons" is faced with one basic dilemma: the „global commons" are not sitting at the negotiation table; there is nobody acting on their behalf.
wwics.si.edu /subsites/ccpdc/pubs/zart/ch10.htm   (5663 words)

  
 Net Diplomacy: Publications: Virtual Diplomacy Initiative: U.S. Institute of Peace
Diplomacy's theater of operation, its tools, and practitioners have changed fundamentally to meet the demands of flatter, more responsive, more information-equipped and demanding global publics, who include everyone from mom and pop in Mule Shoe, Texas, to Jiang Zemin, in Beijing.
Diplomacy in this environment is shared by all who speak and act on a global level to arbitrate, negotiate, mediate, or in any way represent the multiple perspectives that make up these publics.
Diplomacy was invented, after all, to manage conflict and change, or at least to ameliorate their effects.
www.usip.org /virtualdiplomacy/publications/reports/14c.html   (6124 words)

  
 Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Global companies need to anticipate environmental conflicts, communicate effectively with nonbusiness interest and pressure groups, influence the decisions of foreign governments, maintain and cultivate constructive relations with external constituencies, and negotiate on behalf of the company in foreign countries with nonbusiness groups.
He stated: "Diplomacy is the application of intelligence and tact to the conduct of official relations between the governments of independent states, or more briefly the conduct of business between states by peaceful means."24 Diplomacy should restrain from sowing discord between states and build confidence between them.
Global managers need to be competent in business diplomacy, and successfully represent the wider interests of a global company to international organizations, non-governmental organizations, communities, the media, and multiple host governments.
gemini.tntech.edu /~rpineda/mbpint.htm   (7265 words)

  
 Disarmament Diplomacy: - 'Global Action to Prevent War'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Global Action to Prevent War is a comprehensive project for moving toward a world in which armed conflict is rare.
Global Action to Prevent War aims to make deadly conflict rare by strengthening commitment to the rule of law, strengthening global and regional capabilities for conflict resolution and peacekeeping, and replacing unilateral armed intervention with multilateral defense against genocide and aggression.
Building on the improved means of avoiding armed conflict, deepen confidence in the international community's ability to prevent war through a watershed commitment by participating nations (including the major powers) not to deploy their armed forces beyond national borders except in multilateral actions under the auspices of the reformed UN or its regional counterparts.
www.acronym.org.uk /34doc1.htm   (6096 words)

  
 The Globalist | Global Diplomacy -- Europe’s Soft Power
European public diplomacy that counters the Islamic extremism is beneficial to the United States.
In the wake of the Iraq War, Eastern Europeans and Turks gave the EU higher marks than the United States for playing a positive role on a variety of issues — ranging from fighting terrorism to reducing poverty to protecting the environment.
European public diplomacy that counters their appeal is beneficial to the United States.
www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=3886   (839 words)

  
 Global Diplomacy -- Rules with deviation from standard game
Global diplomacy is best played by 6 players – although rules for 2-5 players also exist.
As under standard Diplomacy, adjustments and building of units is in accordance with the individual superpower holdings – including the limit of five of each type of unit per superpower.
Having a global board allows for units to wrap around the globe without the artificial constraint of a board "edge" or the oddness of the wrapped board variants.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~epederso/gd/GDRULE03.html   (3029 words)

  
 GLOBAL COMMERCIAL DIPLOMACY PROGRAMME: Executive International Management Programme for Young Entrepreneurs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Global markets are far more integrated, yet separated than they once were.
As firms expand their transnational production networks and governments continue to negotiate far-reaching trade agreements at both regional and global levels, small and medium sized enterprises and industries (SMEs/SMIs) need to be empowered to expand and increase their share of participation in the export markets.
There is a need for a new kind of professional entrepreneur who will use skilful commercial diplomacy to negotiate joint ventures, take full advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and electronic commerce, negotiate agreements and manage relationships among corporations and governments at the international level.
www.ildglobal.org /newsite/ild/gcd/gcd.htm   (347 words)

  
 EMG PBeM Strategy Games -> Global Diplomacy
In GLOBAL DIPLOMACY each player guides the destiny of one of the Great Powers of the late nineteenth century : Austria, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Ottoman Empire, Russia, Spain, Portugal and the USA.
Players must use their political skill and cunning as well as their military might (armies, corps, fleets and squadrons) to become the dominant global power.
Global Diplomacy 2 uses the same rules, but a revised map for more balanced play.
members.shaw.ca /emgturn/gd.htm   (186 words)

  
 Activities: Virtual Diplomacy Initiative: U.S. Institute of Peace
The Virtual Diplomacy Initiative project and Grant’s paper both hold that the proliferation of global networks is changing the nature of international affairs and where power resides.
At the Information Technology and the Practice of Diplomacy conference held at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in April 20, 2001, U.S. Institute of Peace President Richard H. Solomon moderated a panel that considered the impact of information and communications technologies on public diplomacy.
The Virtual Diplomacy Initiative organized two panel discussions during the International Studies Association Annual Conference in February 1999 in Washington, D.C. The panels considered the theory and the practice, respectively, supporting a "Revolution in Diplomatic Affairs," a concept derived from the 1997 Virtual Diplomacy conference.
www.usip.org /virtualdiplomacy/activities/activities.html   (2320 words)

  
 Virtual Diplomacy Initiative: U.S. Institute of Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Virtual Diplomacy Initiative, directed by Sheryl Brown, explores the role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the conduct of foreign affairs, particularly their effect upon international conflict management and resolution.
Co-authored by Sheryl Brown, director of the Virtual Diplomacy Initiative, this report was originally presented as a speech at a conference, "Towards Interoperability in Crisis Management," cosponsored by the United States Institute of Peace's Virtual Diplomacy Initiative and the Crisis Management Initiative's Information Technology and Crisis Management project in Helsinki, Finland, September 11-14, 2003.
Edited by Barry Fulton, a research professor at George Washington University and director of the Public Diplomacy Institute, "Net Diplomacy" is a three part series of reports that examine the state of diplomacy in 2015.
www.usip.org /vdi/vdi.html   (720 words)

  
 Online NewsHour Forum: Analyzing the Kyoto Global Warming Conference -- December 12, 1997
The Clinton Administration's homepage on its global warming proposal.
Global Change, a database of articles on climate change.
The delegates, who represent over 150 nations, are trying to forge a treaty that would mandate reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases.
www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/december97/kyoto_12-12.html   (899 words)

  
 Iraqi Prisoner Crisis: Correcting America's Communications Failure
The Bush Administration still has no comprehensive public diplomacy strategy for Iraq, and the coordination of global U.S. public diplomacy is in disarray.
He should task his Office of Global Communications to go beyond formulating political messages and to promote coordination between Cabinet agencies on public diplomacy themes and initiatives.
For State to champion global public diplomacy efforts in the Middle East and elsewhere, the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs must be more than a mere adviser.
www.heritage.org /Research/MiddleEast/em935.cfm   (941 words)

  
 Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Diplomacy-Global -> India takes centre-stage of hot-paced diplomacy (COMMENTARY)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Never before has India been at the centre of attention by major powers and hot-paced diplomacy as it has been in the last 30 days.
In the middle of March, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in New Delhi to brief Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the brave new policy towards India that President George W. Bush intends to follow during his second term.
Because India-China relations had acquired a "global character", said the statement, there was need for a "strategic partnership for peace and prosperity" between the two countries that Wen described as "two pagodas" of progress in Asia.
www.eians.com /stories/2005/04/24/24do.shtml   (1238 words)

  
 Global diplomacy
It is not a place for school yard Bullies and childish behavour or for people who cannot regularly take part.
Each Country has a Military and Economic facter and although there will inevitably be conflict it is intended to be a small portion of what occurs here.
Diplomacy and Trade agreements as well as Treaties and behind the scenes negotiations can be as powerfull and crippling to a country if applied properly as any Military strike.
groups.msn.com /Globaldiplomacy   (232 words)

  
 The German Lion and the French Lamb by Robert Kagan - The Globalist > > Global Diplomacy
Ever since the succesful creation of their own economic and political union, Europeans have seen it as their mission to apply this peaceful approach to integration in the rest of the world.
Robert Kagan explores the global implications of Europe's unique approach — and why it views U.S. unilateralism as a threat.
Diplomacy, negotiations, patience, the forging of economic ties, political engagement, the use of inducements rather than sanctions, the taking of small steps and tempering ambitions for success — these were the tools of Franco-German rapprochement and hence the tools that made European integration possible.
www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2620   (906 words)

  
 2004 Leadership Gala
With this position, the School of Diplomacy and the UNA takes its first step toward building a center for United Nations studies to be housed at the School.
Pearson is a founding member of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy Board of Overseers, and has served on numerous civic boards.
Michael Pearson joins an esteemed group of past Global Citizen recipients that include UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Fred Hassan, chairman and CEO of Schering-Plough; David Ebsworth, worldwide head of Bayer Pharmaceuticals; and Raymond Pocino, vice president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America.
diplomacy.shu.edu /gala_2004.htm   (499 words)

  
 Conference 1 Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
If international organizations are to remain effective forums for information age diplomacy and efficient mechanisms for multilateral actions, they too must keep pace with the changing information and communications environment.
Confronted with global problems such as terrorism, actors must improve their intelligence sharing mechanisms and cooperate to maximize their own interest.
Moreover, although the State Department continues to develop and standardize a global e-diplomacy network and train overseas staff in the use of these technologies, their goals are being stymied by the inability to fully communicate with the different agencies of the State Department.
tecn.rutgers.edu /itworkshop/conference1report.htm   (9011 words)

  
 Mistress' Lair - Pragmatists vs. Ideologues in terms of global diplomacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Despite the rhetoric that is made privy to the public, politicians and their envoys typically engage in pragmatic diplomacy provided their leadership is of the pragmatic type.
If however the leadership of a nation is of the ideologue type then pragmatic diplomacy is not an available option and as a result we have a different, severely diminished and often harmful diplomatic dynamic occurring.
However, it is not limited to the diplomacy field, but holds true for any field that a particular ideology focuses on.
www.mistresslair.net /forums/showthread.php?t=7210   (1823 words)

  
 The World Casts a Critical Eye on Bush's Style of Diplomacy
None of those decisions was a surprise; all stemmed logically from conservative foreign policy principles that Bush and his aides had outlined in the campaign.
On global warming, allies said they hoped the United States would come up with an alternative approach to solving the problem; almost two years later, the administration has yet to do so.
All that was before the Sept. 11 attacks and the war on terrorism -- a global effort that both rallied a vast coalition to Bush's side and gave the president a new sense of mission.
www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0303-07.htm   (2019 words)

  
 Global SchoolNet Foundation - Linking Kids Around the World! Global Project-Based Learning
Contact Us Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) partners with schools, communities and businesses to provide collaborative educational, scientific and cultural learning activities that prepare students for the workforce and help them to become literate and responsible global citizens.
Global SchoolNet's free membership program provides project-based learning support materials, resources, activities, lessons and special offers from Global SchoolNet partners.
The grant is part of Microsoft’s $6,000,000 U.S. Partners in Learning initiative, a program that helps further develop groundbreaking educational programs that have a track record of helping students and teachers create the 21st-century learning environment necessary in today’s knowledge economy.
www.globalschoolnet.org /index.html   (304 words)

  
 Global Diplomacy
The threatened depletion of Earth's ozone layer is a prime example of such challenges (other items on the new agenda include global warming, deforestation, species extinction, desertification and soil erosion, and pollution of common resources).
Ambassador Benedick, the chief US negotiator of the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, later revised in 1990, describes the negotiations and the protocol as "the forerunner of an evolving global diplomacy, through which nations accept common responsibility for stewardship of the planet." Some lessons for this new diplomacy are:
It may be desirable for a leading country or group of countries to take preemptive protection measures in advance of a global agreement.
horizon.unc.edu /projects/OTH/1-4_environ1.asp   (588 words)

  
 Terrorism: Diplomacy and the Global Campaign Against Terrorism
Terrorism: Diplomacy and the Global Campaign Against Terrorism
The global war on terrorism is being fought by many means -- through diplomatic, military, financial, intelligence, investigative, and law enforcement actions -- at home and abroad.
The Department of State has the lead role on the diplomatic front abroad to advance the cause of the coalition against terrorism.
www.state.gov /coalition   (147 words)

  
 Japan Policy & Politics: TokyoNow: Global warming diplomacy becoming active
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is determined to lead international negotiations to prevent global warming under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, but the Bush administration, which rejects the pact, stands in the way of his determination.
At a lecture meeting in London in September last year, Blair said global warming will change humankind's existence, and now is the time to act.
Global warming is expected to be the main item on the agenda at a summit meeting of major industrialized countries in Scotland this July.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2005_Feb_22/ai_n11843863   (469 words)

  
 Doors to Diplomacy: Sponsored by US State Department and Global SchoolNet
The U. Department of State is sponsors the "Doors to Diplomacy" educational challenge - to encourage middle school and high school students around the world to produce web projects that teach others about the importance of international affairs and diplomacy.
Each student team member of the winning “Doors to Diplomacy” Award team receives a $2,000 scholarship, and the winning coaches’ schools each receive a $500 cash award.
The Doors to Diplomacy Award competition is a variation of Global SchoolNet's internationally recognized CyberFair program, in which students produce web projects to showcase their local communities.
globalschoolhouse.org /GSH/doors   (115 words)

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