I don't know much about diplomacy but this might help :)
<span>The functioning of diplomacy is influenced by a complicated combination of different interrelated factors. This paper briefly analyses their impact on the evolution of diplomacy and discusses how diplomacy as an instrument of good governance should adjust itself to meet the new challenges, to become more relevant, open and agile, to modify its methods and to fully utilize opportunities offered by the technological revolution.
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That statement is False
In case based reasoning, we would try to solve the current cases by using the data from similar past cases.
Because of this, the rules that is uses as a basis to solve the case couldn't be considered as 'flexible' since we're aiming to make a similar approach that implemented in past cases.
Answer:
Being a form of dishonesty, political corruption implies that those who are entrusted with power over people, here the Russian czar family over, become influenced by others who seek to satisfy their own gain, here Rasputin. While, it may not necessarily harm the people at all times, political corruption creates a channel of influence over the the political figures, which would most likely to be abused but the third parties.
In particular, Rasputin was accused of taking financial bribes and saxual favors from third party actors in order to exercise his power of the czar family and thus help these actors to get what they were seeking.
