Diplomacy (Hardback)
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How to win allies and manage adversaries: diplomacy's role in uncertain times, from one of the UK's most respected negotiators
Diplomacy is the delicate art of managing people and relationships. It is the greatest instrument we have for making and keeping peace, and to counter our adversaries. It's an indispensable skill - whether you're an ambassador, a business leader or a hapless spouse.
Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former ambassador to Russia and one of the most experienced diplomats in modern British history, dispenses his wisdom on the past, present and future of diplomacy. Reflecting on his experiences since 1955 - meetings with Kissinger, talks with the IRA and negotiations in Moscow as the Soviet Union collapsed - he uncovers the essential qualities that make a world-class diplomat, and reveals what Britain must do next to keep good relations in unstable times.
Diplomacy (Ebook)
What has it ever done for us?
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How to win allies and manage adversaries: diplomacy's role in uncertain times, from one of the UK's most respected negotiators
Diplomacy is the delicate art of managing people and relationships. It is the greatest instrument we have for making and keeping peace, and to counter our adversaries. It's an indispensable skill - whether you're an ambassador, a business leader or a hapless spouse.
Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former ambassador to Russia and one of the most experienced diplomats in modern British history, dispenses his wisdom on the past, present and future of diplomacy. Reflecting on his experiences since 1955 - meetings with Kissinger, talks with the IRA and negotiations in Moscow as the Soviet Union collapsed - he uncovers the essential qualities that make a world-class diplomat, and reveals what Britain must do next to keep good relations in unstable times.
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Rodric Braithwaite
Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat and author whose long Foreign Office career took him to Indonesia, Poland, Italy, America and Russia. He was British Ambassador in Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union, which he described in Across the Moscow River(2002, Yale). Rodric Braithwaite was subsequently foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister, John Major, and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He is author of Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan (Profile Books), Moscow 1941 (Profile Books), a bestseller translated into nineteen languages and Armageddon & Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation (2017).
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