The Imperium's official xenophobia coexists with pragmatic agreements with alien groups. Those agreements do not fit the strict doctrine proclaimed on paper. The gap suggests that policy is applied more flexibly than the ideology implies. This is an interpretation of a fictional institution and its diplomacy.
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Imperial xenophobia in doctrine and diplomacy in practice
The Imperium's formal xenophobia sits uneasily beside the agreements its institutions make in practice.