Different partners, different reasons

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The current global politics have moved far away from Thomas Jefferson’s style of diplomacy: “I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment.” Presently, partnership-based diplomatic engagements in varied forms have predominantly become the order of the day. Charles Darwin is invoked: “In the long history of humankind (and animalkind, too), those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” One of the most “recent additions to the repertoire of alignment archetypes”, the idea of partnerships in diplomacy is considered an intersection between realist and neo-liberal paradigms. It is...