Diplomacy and diversity

My knowledge of the subject has increased in various areas, I now understand the importance of multilateral diplomacy in todays political world far more than previously. Institutions such as the United Nations and other NGO's role in world politics and multilateral diplomacy have been highlighted for example the diplomatic negotiations between China, India the United States and North Korea to solve nuclear issues have changed my original perception of all public diplomacy being practiced bilaterally. Also my opinion of the balance of power's importance have increased due to Joseph Nye's explanation of the terms soft power, smart power and hard power. This module has highlighted that in order for major world crisis such as terrorism to be solved soft power is a necessity and public diplomacy is the correct way to achieve this. At the start of this module I did not understand the diversity of diplomacy and how powerful certain NGO's are, after research organisations such as Green Peace have demonstrated there role in world politics as illustrated in earlier blogs. I previously understood political diplomacy to simply be state ambassadors.