CEVAP:

Open diplomacy is a term developed by the U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in his famous Fourteen Points, published at the end the World War I as a reaction to the secret diplomacy conducted between colonising European powers prior to the war. The main characteristic of the open diplomacy is that all the negotiations between countries should proceed openly in the public view, as secret talks and agreements reached before the First World War between the major powers were partly blamed for the start of the war. The expectation is that, should the public in general, but especially in the liberal countries, know about the details of the secret talks and/or agreements between states, they would oppose more unfair aspects of these agreements, thereby reducing the possibility of conflicts emerging over them.