A year after Entebbe, Israel took the diplomatic path, engaging in direct negotiations – which led to an eventual peace treaty – with Egypt.
In another example, a broad set of diplomatic actors engaged in a series of formal and informal negotiations with representatives of the Indonesian government when it refused to share H5N1 (avian influenza) virus samples with the Global Influenza Surveillance Network beginning in 2006.
China actively works to block its 170 formal diplomatic allies from engaging with Taiwanese officials in regional disputes.
The third is a "new diplomatic offensive" aimed at engaging Iraq's neighbours in stabilising the region, and including getting more deeply engaged in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
"We have been engaging in diplomatic dialogue with India regarding the blockade… The prime minister has also promised to address [the Madhesi] demands," he said.
Famously skeptical of the prospects of reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians, Mr. Lieberman, a hard-line populist, accused the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, of engaging in "diplomatic terrorism".
But she would have a diplomatic strategy to engage him.
What monitoring can do is provide reliable evidence and engage diplomatic pressure: a role surely strengthened after the decisions last week.
It was, the diplomatic cable said, engaged in "extortion and racketeering, intimidation, prostitution, gambling, narcotics trafficking, car theft and trafficking in stolen automobiles".
The administration also needs to be thinking hard about a diplomatic strategy to engage or at least neutralize all of the region's meddling players.
