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The Search For Peace Douglas Hurd

The Search For Peace By Douglas Hurd

The Search For Peace by Douglas Hurd


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Summary

* Popular history of 200 years of international diplomacy by distinguished former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.

The Search For Peace Summary

The Search For Peace: A Century of Peace Diplomacy by Douglas Hurd

We live in a world of nation states, immortal and political entities that act as a focus for the loyalty of the citizen but cannot by themselves meet those citizens' needs. As the history of our own continent illustrates, a Europe of nation states has bred a Europe of endemic warfare. Such has been the problem facing international diplomacy for nearly two hundred years. Douglas Hurd traces the search for peace back to the Treaty of Vienna in 1815, focusing his attention on four key events - the Congress of Vienna, the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the Yalta settlement of 1945 and the collapse of Communism. He demonstrates how the diplomatic realism that kept Europe at peace for a century was destroyed by both American idealism at the end of the First World War and the accompanying rise of Nazism, Fascism and Marxism. Only by appreciating the lessons of the past, can we meet the new challenges presented by the tumultuous events of 1989, when the threat of nuclear war was replaced by the open wound of Bosnia. Combining acute historical analysis with the unique insight of a former Foreign Secretary, THE SEARCH FOR PEACE is a major contribution to our understanding of international politics.

The Search For Peace Reviews

* '...all the insight and judgement you would expect from such a distinguished mind, and the virtue of being immensely readable * - John Major, SUNDAY TIMES 'Pick of the Year' *
* 'The text is taut...wise and penetrating * Roy Jenkins, Sunday TELEGRAPH *

About Douglas Hurd

Douglas Hurd is a former Minister for Northern Ireland and Foreign Secretary in Margaret Thatcher's Government. He was also Political Secretary to Edward Heath when he was Prime Minister (1970-74), becoming Lord Hurd of Westwell in the 1997 honours lists.

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GOR003475728
9780751526738
0751526738
The Search For Peace: A Century of Peace Diplomacy by Douglas Hurd
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
1999-01-21
256
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