The Importance of Social Skills in International Politics

People don't normally jump into reflect about the substance before they give you a broad impression of the reception they received. This suggests that we might be focusing on the wrong thing entirely, spending too much time on bureaucratic mechanics and not enough on relational dynamics when it comes to influence. Back to Brydie again, I still couldn't get her to cough up that story about the headbudding ambassador but she has got a cracking story about all the efforts plowed into another tool of statecraft, signing a memorandum of understanding.