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Subject(s)

• Diplomacy—History—20th century [Browse]
• Diplomats—Biography [Browse]
• World politics—1945-1989 [Browse]

Editor

• Craig, Gordon Alexander, 1913-2005 [Browse]
• Loewenheim, Francis L. [Browse]

Series

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5256

Summary note

This volume offers a unique perspective on a turbulent and dangerous age by focusing on the activities and accomplishments of its diplomats. Its twenty-three interconnected essays discuss the politics of ambassadors, foreign ministers, and heads of state from Acheson and Adenauer to Sadat and Gromyko, as well as the special problems of the professionals in the foreign offices and the role of the media in modern diplomacy. Among its contributors are such distinguished international scholars as Akira Iriye, Michael Brecher, Stanley Hoffmann, W.W. Rostow, and Norman Stone.Expanding the field of inquiry covered by its acclaimed predecessor, The Diplomats, 1919-1939, which concentrated on Europe and the coming of the Second World War, these essays showcase the major diplomatic practitioners of the period against the broader background of the problems and crises that confronted them-among others, the Polish question at the end of World War II, the onset of the Cold War, the defeat of EDC in 1954, the Suez crisis, Kruschchev's Berlin note in 1958, the Middle East War of 1967 and the oil shock of 1973, the Iranian revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This account of the pendular swing from crisis and detente and back again is given a global perspective by careful treatment of the diplomacy of new nations like India, Communist China, and Israel, and the transformation of the Middle East and Japan.Among the new perspectives offered here are Geoffrey Warner's critical view of Ernest Bevin's attitude toward the United States, John Lewis Gaddis's judgment of Henry Kissinger's detente policy, W.W. Rostow's analysis of the diplomatic method of Paul Monnnet, Rena Fonseca's assessment of Nehru's policy of nonalignment, Shu Guang Zhang's fresh look at the relationship between Zhou Enlai and Mao, and Paul Gordon Lauren's critique of U.N. crisis management from Trygve Lie to Perez de Cuellar. Highly original also are Steven Miner's portrait of Molotov, Michael Brecher's pioneering study of the diplomacy of Abba Eben, and James McAdams's analysis of German Ostpolitik.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
• Description based on print version record.

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1. Diplomats and Diplomacy During the Second World War
• CHAPTER 2. The U.S. Department of State from Hull to Acheson
• CHAPTER 3. His Master's Voice: Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov as Stalin's Foreign Commissar
• CHAPTER 4. Ernest Bevin and British Foreign Policy, 1945-1951
• CHAPTER 5. The Moralist as Pragmatist: John Foster Dulles as Cold War Strategist
• CHAPTER 6. The Road to Suez: The British Foreign Office and the Quai d'Orsay, 1951-1957
• CHAPTER 7. Konrad Adenauer and His Diplomats
• CHAPTER 8. The Foreign Policy of Charles de Gaulle
• CHAPTER 9. Jean Monnet: The Innovator as Diplomat
• CHAPTER 10. Adam Rapacki and the Search for European Security
• CHAPTER 11. Japan Returns to the World: Yoshida Shigeru and His Legacy
• CHAPTER 12. In the Shadow of Mao: Zhou Enlai and New China's Diplomacy
• CHAPTER 13. Nehru and the Diplomacy of Nonalignment
• CHAPTER 14. Eban and Israeli Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, War, and Disengagement
• CHAPTER 15. Sadat: The Calculus of War and Peace
• CHAPTER 16. The Diplomats and Diplomacy of the United Nations
• CHAPTER 17. Dean Rusk and the Diplomacy of Principle
• CHAPTER 18. The New Diplomacy of the West German Ostpolitik
• CHAPTER 19. Rescuing Choice from Circumstance: The Statecraft of Henry Kissinger
• CHAPTER 20. Andrei Gromyko as Foreign Minister: The Problems of a Decaying Empire
• CHAPTER 21. Soviet Ambassadors from Maiskii to Dobrynin
• CHAPTER 22. From Helsinki to Afghanistan: American Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1975-1979
• CHAPTER 23. The News Media and Diplomacy
• AFTERWORD
• INDEX

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ISBN

• 0-691-03613-6
• 0-691-19446-7

OCLC

• 1079006662
• 1078997333

Doi

• 10.1515/9780691194462

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