the 'old' diplomacy.

The enviroment for diplomacy has been affected by a series of the shifts in the distabution of power at intrnational level . 'balance of power' is no longer the basis of diplomany, today the new dipomacy needs to reflect the new distribution of power.
firstly, for much of the last centuary our security concerns were primarily about eccesive and expansionist states, threatening their citizens or nebouring countries today some of the greatest threats are likely to emerge in countries where state power is too weak not too strong- to weak to clamp down on the creeping threat of global terrorism, the implication is clear:building the capacity of states must go hand in hand with building a more democratic state as well. while there has been a substantial reduction in the size of conventional and nuclear arsenals since the end of cold war, the sence of insecurity felt by citizens may actually have increased. across the world, people are demanding more power for themselves.