After the First World War and with the spread of democracy,the international and domestic setting of diplomacy underwent a transformation.The American President Woodrow Wilson stated in his Fourteen Points that a new kind of diplomacy based on moral and democratic principles had to be developed. International negotiations should from then on be pursued openly and in public, without private or secret understandings between the negotiators.Hence, President Wilson's famous statement about"open covenants openly arrived at" became the normative principle of new diplomacy(Eban 1983: 345)