Carne Ross

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6. THE TELEGRAM OR HOW TO BE IGNORED UN Security Council and Tindouf, Algeria One of the principal artifacts of diplomatic business is the encrypted telegram between the embassy and the capital. In the British Foreign Office, telegram writing is a highly fetishized business. The drafting process is stylized and hierarchical, in a way an unconscious metaphor for the whole business of diplomacy. If a junior diplomat writes the first draft, it must be checked by a senior diplomat before being “signed off”. Particularly important dispatches must be checked by ambassadors themselves, since it is their name that goes at the end of the message (itself an unconscious reinforcement of the hierarchicalism of the system). ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

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6. Why Chess Is an Inappropriate Metaphor for International Relations, Why Jackson Pollack Paintings Are a Better but Still Inadequate Metaphor, and Why This Has Profound Political Consequences The chess game is a frequent metaphor for the business of international relations. Artfully shot photographs of kings and knights adorn many a book or scholarly article (particularly those about the theory of “IR”). The chess game appeals as analogy because it is complicated, it involves two clearly defined opponents and, above all, because although a very difficult game, it is ultimately comprehensible: There may be a very large number of permutations (according to Garry Kasparov, there are 10120 possible games), but there are a l... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

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