diplomacy

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Claim: “My first preference was always the path of diplomacy, yet the regime continued their relentless quest for nuclear weapons and rejected every attempt at an agreement.”

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

The prospects for negotiations reopening the strait and ending the war are dismal, and there is no guarantee that force can accomplish what diplomacy cannot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Now her son is being asked to do his own bit of royal diplomacy in the shadow of another international conflict.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Violence can’t replace dialogue, nor can force prevail over diplomacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

When the English began to invade their homelands, Indigenous peoples brought their ways of diplomacy to their interactions with the colonizers.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz