The One with respect to the other, universality based on rational mediation of conceptualizable political differences. This mediation is the essence of diplomacy. Long before the Nation-state even manages to find its foothold as the dialectical other of its other, the otherness at its core to see the light of day. The immediate is mediation's emasculation. Confidence is already electronic disclosure.
Intelligence is ambient.
Absolutely everything there is to know is already streaming through the cable-laden walls and false floors of the CIA awaiting decoding. The external is already internally disengorged. The other is already here. Antidiplomacy must be situated in relation to Der Derian's earlier historical analysis of international relations theory. In Der Derian's view the historical aim of diplomacy has been to watch over that theoretical unity which is the basis for the diversity of the European State system, to nurture and tease out the ties which, in the final analysis, guarantee national differences.