[cebert]

This summer, I am taking one college class. In order to pass the class, I have to conduct an online survey. I decided to do mine on diplomacy vs negotiations. The survey is extremely short and shouldn't take more than three minutes. If any of you could help me out and take the survey, it would be great!


If you would like to participate, please go to the following link:

sitemaker.umich.edu/socpolsurveys
(and no, you will not be spammed or asked to give your name)

Thank you soo much for your help (it means a lot),

Chris Ebert
University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI

if you have any comments, I will be checking this thread

[linskyjack]

emmmmm negotiations versus diplomacy---Can you be a bit more precise before I take your survery. I thought that negotiations were often a part of diplomacy. Maybe you are referring to the neo-conservative diplomacy of attacking first then dealing with everything else.

[cebert]

Sorry, I do need to clarify. The survey says that there is an hypothetical nation that has acquired nuclear capability, and threatens to use it against your own country. The survey asks how likely you are to support negotiations- reaching an mutual agreement with another country or using diplomacy- using force (troops) to resolve the issue (or as you said, attacking first then dealing with everything else). I think that the results will be interesting, and I will post them on this thread.

[linskyjack]

Okay--so its the military option versus diplomacy and negotiations. Okay, let me take your survery.

[cebert]

Okay, thank-you so much.

[TooBad]

Originally Posted by cebert

Sorry, I do need to clarify. The survey says that there is an hypothetical nation that has acquired nuclear capability, and threatens to use it against your own country. The survey asks how likely you are to support negotiations- reaching an mutual agreement with another country or using diplomacy- using force (troops) to resolve the issue (or as you said, attacking first then dealing with everything else). I think that the results will be interesting, and I will post them on this thread.

So, you've equated diplomacy and the military option? I don't see how your survey can have any practical results when it is a choice between identical options. Diplomacy = negotiations, the military option is the result of failed diplomacy. That does not mean that all military options are a failure, sometimes diplomacy is doomed by one side or the other and never has a chance (i.e. Nazi Germany, Iraq, perhaps others).