ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the dangers arising from connivance, identifies different strategies of diplomatic connivance and suggests that they are dependent on both an issue-specific context and the constellation of interests. The author stresses that connivance tends to become the major pattern in any concert setting and in turn jeopardizes global integration, triggers frustration among excluded members and by and large leads to rather poor decisions. However, under three conditions, it might be possible for a modern-day concert system to mitigate the destructive potential of connivance diplomacy: a high level of institutionalization, a high level of inclusiveness and strong public diplomacy.
