"clientitis" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990, Iain Guest, Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights and the United Nations, University of Pennsylvania Press",
          "text": "Their relationship with the governments in their region is usually one of warmth and understanding, often described as “clientitis” or “clientism.”",
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          "ref": "2009, Vera Blinken, Donald M. Blinken, Vera and the Ambassador, State University of New York Press, page 58",
          "text": "We also learned two new words: “clientitis” and “ambassadoritis”. Clientitis is the disease of those enthralled by a host country that they promote its interests, rather than their own country's.",
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          "ref": "2011, John Lenczowski, Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy, Lexington Books, page 108",
          "text": "In the case of diplomats, the State Department has had to wrestle with criticisms that regional specialists—say, those who concentrate on the Arab world and speak Arabic—will suffer from “clientitis”: the disease of “going native,” of developing such sympathy for the people and culture of a given region that one begins to represent its interest to America rather than vice versa.",
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        "The situation where an organization's resident in-country staff come to regard the officials and people of the host country as \"clients\", and thus lose touch with the norms and aims of their home country."
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