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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