Cart
Free Shipping in the UK
Proud to be B-Corp

The Ambassadors Robert Cooper

The Ambassadors By Robert Cooper

The Ambassadors by Robert Cooper


£11.00
New RRP £14.99
Condition - Very Good
Only 1 left

Summary

Diplomacy in the West from Richelieu to Kissinger: the great diplomats of history and what their achievements tell us about the most important issues of our time

The Ambassadors Summary

The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times by Robert Cooper

History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a 16th-century world we can hardly imagine today, but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe.


The Ambassadors includes a brilliant analysis of the people who built the Western side of the Cold War. Henry Kissinger is a pivotal figure in the post-war world, and his story is in some ways typical: he failed in his most important aims and succeeded in ways he never expected. Robert Cooper's pieces together history and considers the illuminating fragments it leaves behind.

The Ambassadors Reviews

Robert Cooper has a lifelong experience of diplomacy in the British Foreign Office and the European Union. His new
book is based on wide reading and meticulous attention to detail. It is fluently written in a limpid and comfortable prose...a subtle analysis of the nature of international relations and the creative way brilliant people have used a combination of diplomacy and force to manage the convoluted problems which relations between countries always throw up... A vivid and penetrating account of the major international crises of the past 70 years and the people who handled them

-- Rodric Braithwaite * THE SPECTATOR *
Told with erudition and con molto brio ... The author's reflections on the nature and uses of power as on the art of negotiation deserve full attention -- Francois Heisbourg * FINANCIAL TIMES *
This book's often critical analysis is as good a primer on Kissinger as there is to be found * Irish Times *

About Robert Cooper

Sir Robert Francis Cooper is a British diplomat and adviser currently serving as a Special Advisor at the European Commission with regard to Myanmar. He is also a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and is an acclaimed writer on international relations. His publications, apart from a number of articles in Prospect and elsewhere, include: The Post-Modern State and the World Order and The Breaking of Nations, which won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

Additional information

GOR012232381
9781780228365
1780228368
The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times by Robert Cooper
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
2021-09-02
576
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - The Ambassadors