shuttle diplomacy
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈʃʌtəl dɪˈpləʊməsi/
- Literature
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diplomacia de shuttle
- I was especially fascinated by Werth's account of the young Ford's shuttle diplomacy between his mother and his birth father, Leslie King, which he suggests provided a get-it-all-behind-you template for the Nixon pardon forty years later.
- conducted shuttle diplomacy
Examples
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In 1974, when Secretary of State Henry Kissinger conducted his shuttle diplomacy to arrange the disengagement of forces in the Golan Heights, Syrian and Israeli military representatives signed the agreement in the Egyptian-Israeli working group.
Academic text (1994) -
Kissinger's 'shuttle diplomacy' restored peace between Egypt and Israel but failed to address Palestinian territorial demands, thus providing only a temporary truce in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Academic text (2005) -
That was their shuttle diplomacy last week, it seemed to me.
Blog text (31) -
After many months of shuttle diplomacy and behind-the-scenes negotiations...
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" We will embark on rounds of shuttle diplomacy between the two countries.
Blog text (5) -
The speech capped several weeks of shuttle diplomacy in which his administration has gotten support for its plan from the likes of U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former President Clinton and his Clinton Global Initiative, and various international mining and energy companies, Australian officials say.
Blog text (10) -
We can engage in the kind of high-level shuttle diplomacy that you saw be so effective in Gaza," said Affleck, who expressed concern about the deteriorating conditions in the African nation.
Blog text (5) -
However, the PLO continued to be dependent on Jordanian representation through a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Conference of 1991, which was the product of strenuous shuttle diplomacy by then Secretary of State James Baker.
Academic text (1998) -
The ambassador's shuttle diplomacy helped to ease tensions between the two countries through frequent meetings.
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After weeks of discussions, the mediator's shuttle diplomacy finally led to a peace agreement between the rival groups.
Synonyms
201
3.7
Skill in carefully managing talks and relations between people or countries
2
3.9
Talks between representatives of different countries to solve problems and reach agreements
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'shuttle' (frequent back-and-forth travel) with 'diplomacy' (negotiation): it denotes negotiations conducted by someone who travels between parties. This composition is straightforward and mirrors similar constructions in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would very likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Shuttle diplomacy comes from the image of a shuttle going back and forth to carry messages between two places and diplomacy meaning negotiation. That's why it refers to 'negotiations' done by a mediator who keeps traveling between the two sides.