the neutrals ,which may be of potential assistance to either of the principal belligerents. the former being located closer to the adversaries and having, therefore, a more directly mediatory role.A complex Geopolitik further elaborates the allies. ally of the reaward ally, ally of the enemy's ally and so forth. Thus diplomacy is constructed on the interrelationship within a group of twelve state, all neatly catalogued as to the ways as to the ways they can affect the fortunes of the home state. This "sphere of influence" is termed mandala. The mandala theory is based on the assumption that the king,by nature, aspires to conquest, and that adjacent king is this enemy for the two are not in immediate competition and the other neighbor of the enemy would also stand to bendfit from the weakening of the latter.Surround and conquer.