When Europe reached a sufficient stability that can be called everyday life, when the capitals freed the Cortes from wandering, except for the frequent intervals between internal and international wars, the status of ambassadors was enriched with social prestige, expressed in a residence that venerated the country of origin, deeply circulating among the political. the military and cultural elite observing, reflecting on and communicating findings, precautions and recommendations to the respective governments. The traditional centralization of foreign policy leadership, coupled with military responsibility, made ambassadors the eyes of the king, and many left texts indispensable for studying and reflecting on the evolution of the international situation, on changes in the national strategic concept. over time, the strengths and weaknesses of the state in the face of an uncertain table of accidents and political problems.
The growing complexity of the global network of addictions and the accelerated time of change have surpassed the possibilities, routine actions and creativity of these structures, which took a long time to create, states, as a rule, lost the effectiveness of the model of centralized control and without Huge qualitative difference between strong and small people in all spheres the competence they possess leads to the fact that the centers of intervention are united in international networks without the need to replicate in internal networks that support the exchange of information between all. In defense, finance, economics, culture, science, education, public financial institutions, responsibility that requires perception and foresight, multiplies lines of action that intersect with similar civil society emergencies, and also multiply private networks that track cross-border patterns of contract life. networks that intertwine in the centers of dialogue, demand and adaptation, with a surprised state, sometimes a reverent state, sometimes an inferior state as an interlocutor.
At the same time, not only the secular diplomatic apparatus is experiencing serious difficulties in ensuring the methods and capabilities of global control, with difficulties that arise, among other things, due to the lack of legal models, due to practices that create a kind of soft law it discourages rationality, the rivalry of various political interventions with hierarchical respect, all of which sometimes give the impression that the multiplication and speed of interventions are turning into the foam of times, the nature of which is interspersed with emergencies that involve the responsibility of an unknown God.
The dangers of a nuclear holocaust have been recognized from afar, the number of safeguards treaties has multiplied, diplomacy has grown tired, news services have become sophisticated, international bodies have assembled collectives controlled by the world’s media, and new nuclear powers have suddenly emerged, diplomatic movements have received a new impetus, the foam of time is swelling, and the nature of things reveals the size of structured dangerous reality.
Meanwhile, the heads of diplomacy, including the most powerful states, move from capital to capital, from conference to conference, from declaration to declaration, circulating in globalism, the weaknesses of which do not make them responsible just because they did not foresee them, running in circles … and thinking in this undesirable order, in accordance with the reading imposed by an unbroken chain of denials, corrections, additions. Martin Luther King summed it up like this: Cowardice asks – is it safe? Opportunism asks – is it political? (Madeleine Albright, Strong and Almighty, Lisbon, p. 63). Preachers of urgent truth in policy implementation, like Ana Arendt, and the importance of the dialogue they all support, can hardly come to terms with the panorama of this era, which was conceived as an era of information and knowledge, from the wisdom they invoked. Reversing the pace, that is, returning to the mindset before decades later (1998), in partnership with Roger Gerard, publish La Politics lie… Some of the evidence from this millennium entry calls for heed the warning that was backed up by these investigations and the consequences of a political theater that has seriously undermined a possible tolerance for real lies that analysts are unlikely to believe can be avoided. the struggle for the policy of power and its implementation, in any case with a call for prudence. This fact is compounded by the fact that public opinion is sometimes alienated from communication systems associated with dominant interests.
