Diplomacy of the future

... feathers on their heads (as a retired Italian diplomat wrote in his memoires). But everything is changing at a breathtaking pace. Future is already around the corner. Ardent neo-liberals have the reason to wonder: do we really need diplomats if a businessman ... ... “money-saving” projects. For a number of years Norway has been discussing, and it sometimes resorts to, old practices of ad hoc embassies. Indeed, why should the country spend so much money on an embassy maintenance, rental payments, and personnel ...