TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,Robert Francis
TI  - The ambassadors: thinking about diplomacy from Machiavelli to modern times 
SN  - 9781780228365 paperback
AV  - JZ 1418 C778a 2021
U1  - 327.20922 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Weidenfeld & Nicolson
KW  - Ambassadors
KW  - Embajadores
KW  - Diplomacy
KW  - History
KW  - Diplomacia
KW  - Historia
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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. --
ER  -