Diplomatic techniques once mainly confined to the sphere of war and peace, frontiers and treaties, are now applied to almost every subject under the sun, including of course the sun itself and all the issues of climate change.
On the one hand, scientists may borrow from some diplomatic techniques to manage complexity, which is the modus operandi of the diplomatic profession.
It is a technique of diplomatic jujitsu: "Instead of baldly declaring that he is unable to defeat his enemies, God may declare that he has no enemies".
That most diplomatic personnel are not trained in basic security techniques, nor does staff have any security whatsoever.
Advance word of the report's graphic accounts of degrading and painful "enhanced interrogation techniques" prompted the U.S. government to warn its diplomatic and military personnel around the world to be on guard for violent anti-American backlashes.
In an area where neighbours do not always see eye to eye, the spread of his technique may perhaps put a positive spin on the phrase "diplomatic relations are glacial".
Timur was, above all, master of the military techniques developed by Genghis Khan, using every weapon in the military and diplomatic armory of the day.
Techniques of sericulture were subsequently introduced to Japan on a larger scale by frequent diplomatic exchanges between the 8th century and 9th centuries.
Diplomatic ties are strong, as reflected in this artist's widespread use of monochrome fields, recycled imagery and illustrational techniques, and in his influential concept-oriented photography and artist's books.
