Some say embassies are obsolete, while others think the opposite.
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After WW2 why some say embassies are obsolete?
- Modern development of communication and travel technology and the many multilateral meeting points (Ex: UN)
- Embassy political reporting had been overtaken by the huge growth in the international mass media (replacing need for report of info)
- Ideological divide made embassy staffs become hostages if a conflict were to break
- Ex: US embassy in Iran
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Why embassies are and will be important
- Embassies are more prevelent than ever
- As understood by Constructivism and its importance of identity & symbol
- Embassies are apart of the identity of ‘statehood’
- Quantity of embassies is a symbol of modernity of a state