Ahmadinejad has proven resourceful in driving the diplomatic conflict.

Fueling this violence is growing hopelessness in the absence of a diplomatic agreement.

This means extending diplomatic recognition, including opening and maintaining embassies.

As all sides must be aware, time is running out for a diplomatic solution.

This money should be administered at arms length from government to ensure that it is not constrained by diplomatic pressures.

Both countries should commit themselves to a diplomatic resolution of competing claims to offshore resources.

Sometimes they are resolved through active diplomatic intervention by regional or international players.

In fact, North Korea provides a textbook example of Putin's diplomatic method.

And German Chancellor Angela Merkel achieved a substantial diplomatic success.

The process could include appointing a US envoy to Iran.

But, with Ahmadinejad, a high level of appeasement will be necessary for even the most minimal diplomatic process to continue.

Palestinian and Israeli leaders will have to reconcile their differences and reach a diplomatic settlement.

Its members share Ahmedinejad s social conservatism and aversion to diplomatic compromise on the nuclear issue.

We predicted that, absent strong and unified Western diplomatic involvement, war was coming.

Indeed, if a diplomatic solution fails, they are more likely to react more forcefully.

This war would take place against a background of weak economic conditions globally, and would exacerbate those weaknesses, perhaps throwing the world economy into recession.

In Syria, Russian and Chinese intransigence have frustrated its efforts to find a diplomatic solution.

The economic outcome of war could well depend on the diplomatic context.

The leaks have put the US government at the centre of a diplomatic storm with its allies.

Front page headlines of the Macedonian daily Sloboden Pečat during the diplomatic crisis between Serbia and Macedonia.

Even to contemplate such a possibility is proof of diplomatic failure, not a triumph of real leadership.

Sarkozy bowed to his European critics and enjoyed a diplomatic triumph.

But a year of talks and failed agreements has demonstrated that there is no purely diplomatic solution either.

Two days after it began, the diplomatic row between Serbia and Macedonia has seemingly halted.

Both sides have substantially reduced their options, thereby limiting the possibility of a diplomatic compromise.

Iran must understand that without a diplomatic solution in the coming months, a dangerous military conflict is very likely to erupt.

Direct diplomatic and strategic engagement between the US and Iran at the highest levels is a proposition yet to be tested.

But given the other options, the US would be wise to start thinking of a new diplomatic package.

Direct diplomatic and strategic engagement between the US and Iran at the highest levels is a proposition yet to be tested.

But a diplomatic solution guided by the Security Council s permanent members is the only credible path to peace.

The improvement of Iran s relationship with the West and the easing of diplomatic pressure on the Islamic Republic is not a major concern.

One member of the U.S. diplomatic team Marie Harf even took note of it in a tweet

And the Turkish question matters greatly, because it touches on some of the most unstable and unsettling of the world s diplomatic disputes.

North Korea s announcement that it possesses nuclear weapons has fuelled a diplomatic frenzy.

In each case, Germany and its chancellor, Angela Merkel, were at the heart of efforts to achieve a diplomatic resolution.

So here are 12 reasons why America should grasp the opportunity for a diplomatic resolution afforded by the Russian Iranian plan.

With a diplomatic resolution ruled out, Japan launched a preemptive strike that annihilated the Russian Fleet in Port Arthur and Chemulpo, Korea. For the Russians, the situation military went from bad to worse.

With a diplomatic resolution ruled out, Japan launched a preemptive strike that annihilated the Russian Fleet in Port Arthur and Chemulpo, Korea.

But achieving diplomatic deterrence will depend on China s cooperation, and this requires that China s vital national security interests be recognized.

In terms of population, GDP, commercial and diplomatic outreach, culture, and military clout, these countries indisputably form Europe's core.

Only an alliance of conservative leaders and powers (including a retreat by America from diplomatic radicalism), Abdullah believes, can restore some stability to the Middle East.

In the absence of any viable route to US diplomatic engagement with Iran, the burden of organizing, convening, and conducting such highly sensitive negotiations falls on Europe.

Yet, in the wake of intense US and Iranian diplomatic pressure in favor of Maliki, Syria has apparently shifted its support accordingly.

Admittedly, turmoil in Tehran brings inconstancy to Iran s foreign policy, warranting caution about the prospects for a meaningful diplomatic breakthrough.

Both of these accounts post content regularly, favoring more formal diplomatic outreach messaging, like the tweet below, and only occasionally engage with followers.