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Diplomacy and the Cold War
Will Rogers once said “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice Doggie’ till you find a stone”. The art of Statecraft was not at its most nuanced peak during the Cold War, deficient of the much needed soupcon of savoir faire.
If our leaders had access to social media, twitter feuds would probably increase by a hundred. Many new trends were observed in international relation during the Cold War era. One of the fundamental changes was a shift from “reactive alliances” to “standing alliances”; which were broader and long last in nature.
The word was divided into three major blocs –
The First World
The term First World originally refers to the capitalist, industrialized countries, within the influence of Western Europe …show more content…

It is believed that the USSR tried to join the alliance but its proposal was rejected.

The Second World
The second world refers to a group of communist and socialist countries, most of which were part of the Warsaw Pact. The Warsaw Pact ,a military and political was formed as a result of the integration of West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) into NATO.
The actions of the alliance were dominated by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics leaded the world in the communist revolution.
The Warsaw Pact's largest military engagements were aimed against its own members—in 1956 against Hungary and in 1968 against Czechoslovakia.
The Third Word
The Third World refers to the non aligned countries, which did not side with neither of the two main blocs.
The Non –Aligned movement was conceived by Josip Broz Tito, Geneal Abdel Nasser, Kwame Nkrumah and Jawaharlal Nehru. They were successful in promotion of an independent foreign policy, which laid emphasis of the opposition of Neo- Colonialism revival of Developing countries ,whose resources had been exploited in the

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