ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the establishment of successful government in backward states will democratize the control of diplomacy in the so-called civilized nations. As soon as a territory becomes well-governed and a normal commerce begins that territory ceases to be part of the stakes of diplomacy. By increasing the number of people concerned in diplomacy, publicity, criticism, and discussion must follow. From them, education. The realities of diplomacy which are hidden to-day under a cloud of ambiguous phrases and primitive emotion will be revealed. The false unity of nationalism will be superseded by complex facts about which men will differ and argue. The people will be less easily led by the nose; diplomacy will become more and more the bargaining of groups, and cease to be the touchy competition of "national wills".
