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Considers the views of numerous voices regarding the notion that diplomats and their services have gone the way of the hula, as they are no longer effectual or relevant. This is as government is taking a back seat to NGO's, business, and other entities which are proving more trusted and even more potent in negotiating. Some have found the changes striking at the very heart of diplomacy, versus retooling it for the 21st century; such measures might even be considered insidious in its lack of respect for heterogenous interests throughout the globe. Another commentator, Ivan Ivanov, is incredulous and finds the matter beyond reason or feasibility, given the great need for embassies, and an understanding for the necessity of NGO's. Other thoughts include the traditional role of embassies during the Soviet era, such as utilizing these offices as think tanks. Still another commentator finds Ross' article to be devoid of proper merit and scientific methodology. Adapted from the source document.

Following the recent spatial turn in literary criticism and the shift of focus on place, the present paper examines the special significance of place in Henry James's novel The Ambassadors (1903) and explores the relationship between geography and psychology through the main character, Lambert Strether. Analysing the latter's outer and inner observations draws on a close reading of the novel and the instrumentation of such theories as psychogeography and psychoanalytical criticism. Strether's trip is an introspective voyage as much as an exploratory expedition, allowing insight into his subconsciousness through the tropes of the places he traverses. His mental visions of spaces in the novel can be surmised in terms of a psychogeography of his movements, a sort of landscape of the mind which is a reflection of the Freudian perception of the human psyche.

Studying trust at the international level is one of the greatest challenges for trust studies. In this article I seek to expand on work which has sought to study trust between states in a way which avoids anthropomorphising the state, and retains the salience of interpersonal trust. To do this, I consider trust between states as existing in a web of relationships, from relationships between government figures, to military personnel, to members of society. In this article I demonstrate the value of incorporating actors beyond leaders in the most minimal sense: through including boundary spanners, those whose relationships and interactions span across boundaries, whether those boundaries be state borders or segments of government and society. Furthermore, I seek to begin a process of categorising the types of roles that boundary spanners can play in the development of trust between states. To illustrate their impact, I deploy a multidimensional approach to trust which is used to assess the relationship between leaders, and the impact of intermediary figures on both trust between the leaders, and in the relationships developed between the intermediary and their respective leader. One case study is used to exemplify the utility of this approach: the relationship between Harold Macmillan and John F. Kennedy and their respective official ambassadors David Ormsby-Gore and David Bruce.