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In the 18th century, due to extreme turbulence in [[History of Europe#Enlightenment|European diplomacy]] and ongoing conflicts, the practice of diplomacy was often fragmented by the necessity to deal with isolated issues, termed "affairs". Therefore, while domestic management of such issues was termed [[civil affairs]] (peasant riots, treasury shortfalls, and court intrigues), the term [[foreign affairs]] was applied to the management of temporary issues outside the sovereign realm. This term remained in widespread use in the English-speaking states into the 20th century, and remains the name of departments in [[Department of Foreign Affairs#Country-related articles and lists|several states]] that manage foreign relations. Although originally intended to describe short term management of a specific concern, these departments now manage all day-to-day and long-term [[international relations]] among states.
==Conditions==
Foreign relations are governed by several conditions within which they exist:
* Chronological - foreign relations may be operational and ongoing where other nations are concerned, or project-based and temporary where non-state international agents are concerned; they may relate to factors of historical or future considerations
* Contextualised - foreign relations may be particularly affected by pertaining to regional, economic or common goal oriented international organisational issues, etc.
* Environmental - foreign relations may develop to be cooperative, adversarial, predatory, altruistic, mentoring, parasitic, etc.
* Dynamic - Contain a degree of dependence or interdependence; a colony would have a static relationship with the colonizer
* Oriented - foreign relationships are ideally based on commitment to common goals, but can be dysfunctional, and even destructive
Organisations such as the [[Council of Foreign Relations]] in the United States are sometimes employed by government foreign relations organisations to develop foreign policy proposals as alternatives to existing policy, or to provide analytical assessments of evolving relationships.
==References==
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