Black Market Diplomacy

Section: Political Books

Number of pages: 628 pages

The black market of diplomacy, in the economic sense, is the occurrence of a market situation in which demand increases significantly over supply. This meaning may be close to the necessary need for a black diplomatic market. Back-channel diplomacy is often practiced behind the scenes in parallel with front-channel diplomacy. A clear distinction must be made between back-channel diplomacy and secret diplomacy, or secret foreign policy, as some may understand. Back-channel negotiations, whether practiced by professional diplomats or by businessmen to find mediators and initiate dialogue, were the most effective tool for solving problems. The importance of this book lies in explaining the importance of using back channels to reach the required diplomatic solutions between various international actors, and regulating the use of these back channels so that they become more effective in achieving the goals of the national interest, as well as working to overcome the state of estrangement and political impasse in bilateral relations at the level of foreign policy, by finding mechanisms that allow for a certain diplomatic movement, which may reach the stage of employing personal and public relations in opening the back channel.