ABSTRACT
A century later in the 1980s, the word ‘globalization’ was adopted to discuss the multilayered processes of political, economic, and cultural change at the end of the twentieth century. The basic point was that, rather than continue to use phrases such as ‘post-modern’ when discussing the state or the international system, the goal should be to identify the features that actually reflect this ‘global’ world so as to better address current global issues. The goal has been to clarify the position of diplomacy as an inter-cultural institution in its own right—albeit one that generally operates in parallel with the state or whatever entity existed at any given point—and designed to facilitate communication in the form of dialogue representation and negotiation. For diplomacy specifically, the focus has been on the growing propensity to add prefixes and suffixes to diplomacy such as hetero-polarity, fragmented, and the pluralization of diplomacy.
