Diplomacy as the political process by which political entities, generally states, conduct official relations with one another within the international environment, performs distinct functions in foreign policy that makes it indispensable to international society. ... Another function is that of intelligence gathering, where ambassadors collect information about the host state, its conditions, developments and policies, and report them directly to the home government. ... This has become increasingly complicated with the expansion of the scope of foreign policy making and globalization. .....

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CNN), and they have used said networks to further their agendas when it comes to matters concerning their foreign policy and affairs regarding other nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq (Robinson, 2001, p. 533). ... Robinson's premise was further enhanced by Stroud's article on selective exposure, which discussed how the government would use the media to selectively and meticulously give out segmented information as providing the general populous with unabbreviated intelligence could be problematic for the governing state and the people in power (Stroud, 2007, p. 341). ...

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