Diplomacy works best when there are two rational actors negotiating at the same table, with the same set of rules and guiding principles. This was not the case here and it is wrong to glibly proclaim that what we are witnessing today is a failure of diplomacy.
Puru Trivedi
Puru Trivedi is the Vice President of External and Corporate Affairs at the Meridian International Center, a public diplomacy institution in Washington DC. The views expressed are his own.
