Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While at Harvard, the Swedish scholar plans to collect material for his book on the relationship between the diplomat, the politician and the journalist. The triangular drama, as Falkman calls it, plays itself out in the interaction between these three professionals in their search for power and influence...
...Falkman, inquisitiveness has been the key to good diplomacy. "The ideal diplomat is the person who is curious about foreign countries and who is attentive to the world around him and at the same time represents his own country's interests...
Using the failure of diplomacy during the Vietnam War as an example, Falkman says, "The diplomat needs to look deeply into the situation--not from above, but from within...
...illiterate farmers, this Indian diplomat was born in a small village 25 miles north of Delhi. But Prem Singh did not stay for the harvest; he soon left the local grasslands for the international field...
Waite is also trusted by all sides to remain impartial and apolitical. "He has no political point of view whatsoever," says a British diplomat. "He carries out his missions from a strictly humanitarian point of view." Perhaps most important, Waite is a man known to guard confidences jealously. That trait has earned him the trust of not only Pope John Paul II and Archbishop Runcie but Gaddafi and Shi'ite kidnapers...