The art of persuasion is among the main developments being tracked today. As war rages in Ukraine and Asia-Pacific tensions rise, top diplomats discuss diplomacy's future in a fractured multipolar world.
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine marked the failure of what was arguably the most intense period of diplomacy in Europe since 1939.
Footage of Russian troops marching through the dawn shattered hopes that conversation would prevail: by April 2022, at least 394 Russian diplomats had been expelled from Western capitals, with a similar number of retaliatory expulsions.
Yet the invasion also spurred a bravura push to punish Russia.
The US-led effort to impose sanctions on Moscow and arm Ukraine unified and revitalised the Western alliance.
However, as the war approaches its second year and the world fractures into hostile blocs, it is hard to argue that diplomacy is winning.
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