The Bush administration, scornful of traditional diplomacy, has made it worse by not doing more to consult either its longtime allies or its rival Russia.

Eventually, however, the League of Nations was formed in 1919-20 as an alternative to traditional diplomacy.

It's true: He really doesn't care that much for traditional balance-of-power military diplomacy.

The ideological loading of the new language of international relations served to obscure the degree to which the left had capitulated to traditional balance-of-power diplomacy.

Mr. Bush is certainly right that public diplomacy must be practiced in harmony with traditional diplomacy.

Perhaps a larger investment in traditional diplomacy would enable significant reductions to the military budget.

Having failed so far at traditional diplomacy, they say, China is now practicing terra-cotta diplomacy.

The chief delegate conceded that he had shuffled diplomatic strategies since the mission opened, swaying between traditional diplomacy and a more aggressive approach.

We must do away with traditional diplomacy, otherwise this service will bring very little added value.

Now he works on an array of entrepreneurial projects that complement traditional diplomacy.