This is not simply due to some iron law of progress. Many valuable elements of the so-called Old Diplomacy persisted: the alignment of foreign policies with national and regional interests, the preference for the possible over the merely desirable, and the cultivation of what are today called “confidence-building measures,” that is, methods for establishing trust among small groups of professional negotiators, and between them and the people they represent.
事实上，此种国际合力机制早已有之。第一次世界大战期间，伍德罗