Weekly Theme: Week of November 13-19, 2016

The Theme for this Week is Diplomacy.  Now, three weeks ago, we had Mediation as a Theme.  What's the difference?  This is interesting:  When I put "diplomacy vs mediation" into Google, it doesn't like it, preferring "diplomacy AND mediation"!  When we take them individually, we get "the profession ... of managing international relations", for Diplomacy, yet "intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it", for Mediation.  In other words, similar, but not the same.  (Another way of looking at it:  Diplomacy is about the person, taking the action, whereas Mediation deals with the action being taken).

That said, both Themes denote careers, that make sense.