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secret diplomacy

 
     
  Negotiations in regard to which any number of the following are kept secret:

the content of the negotiations;


the fact that negotiations are going on;


the content of any agreement successfully negotiated; or


the fact that any agreement has been successfully negotiated. If secret diplomacy is defined as in sense 1, this is nothing more than a pleonasm since serious negotiation is secret by definition. The attack on ‘secret diplomacy’ during and after the First World War chiefly had in mind senses 2 and 3. See also open diplomacy; Wilson, Woodrow.
 
 

 

 

 
 
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