In peacetime, this serves to promote friendly relations between sending states and receiving states, helping to develop their economic, cultural and scientific relations. ... Improved technology and communication, and the presence of an international media are challenging the function of the diplomat as an observer and reporter, since the home government can now enjoy easy access to information. ... At the same time, diplomacy still has a role in collecting information, since the expanded scope of foreign relations ensures that more data would be needed and cannot be handled by technology an...

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When the cities and territories become wider and expanded, there was a close collaboration with the development of science & technology around the world, the USA's National Academy of Sciences happens to be developing a large effort to promote scientific swap and to help build and support the capacity of local governments in smaller cities in the developing world to address their own serious metropolitan challenges. ...

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