ABSTRACT
Oslo—this glorious and wild country—with its untamed fiords and 13,000 miles of coastline—seems a long way from the rest of the world. Yet it is from this remote northernmost land of Europe that a new kind of diplomacy is beginning to emerge, influencing disparate parts of the globe. Looking over a troubled world today, one can begin to see the effects of Norway’s discreet and unusual diplomacy. Its big success, of course, was the years’ long brokering of the Israeli/Palestine Liberation Organization peace initiative that had resulted in self-rule for the Palestinians in Gaza and Jericho. The Norwegians step in, most often at least, when “friends” like the US, Mexico, Spain, Colombia, and Venezuela turned to it, needing a strong, respected mediator.
