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constructive ambiguity |
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The deliberate use of imprecise language in the drafting of an agreement on a sensitive issue. The aim is to secure its approval in the hope (perhaps purported and often in vain) that its actual approval will encourage further and more substantive steps towards an agreement. Perhaps the best known instance of this phenomenon is the Security Council\'s Resolution 242 of November 1967. Referring to the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War of the previous June, this required the ‘[w]ithdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict’ - not from the territories occupied in the recent conflict. It thereby left unclear the question of whether Israel was obliged to engage in a complete or only partial withdrawal. This proved unconstructive. Other terms for constructive ambiguity are ‘fudging’, and ‘glossing’ or ‘papering over’ disagreements. |
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| Other Terms : consul | Guicciardini, Francesco (1483–1540) | consular rank |
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