The State Department is the primary institution responsible for the execution of diplomacy, although numerous other players, including the Department of Defense, play critical roles.

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The U.S. Treasury, which has done yeoman's work on this front but been smothered in recent years by the "soft power" diplomacy of the State Department, needs a freer hand to run down North Korean offenders.

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The event, initiated by North Korea and coordinated with help from the State Department, has been hailed as both a great success of artistic diplomacy and a failed play into the hands of an evil regime.

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So the State Department insisted on and got responsibility for and control of public diplomacy and strategic communication at large.

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Thereupon Britain, with strong support from elements of the U.S. State Department, launched Land-for-Peace III: coercive diplomacy aimed at getting the Jews to relinquish the Negev desert and Haifa as a basis for seeking Arab consent to a Jewish State.

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The selection was made by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which also tapped the museum to administer its cultural diplomacy effort known as smARTpower.

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Given its total failure to promote U.S. interests through public diplomacy, and the incompatibility of the mission with the culture of the foreign service, the State Department is the last place to be in charge of such an operation.

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