02147cam a2200409 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007801500190009501600180011402000280013202000250016002000240018503500240020904000630023304100080029604200140030405000240031808200140034210000440035624500990040024600830049926400440058230000290062633600210065533700250067633800230070150400510072452008380077565000170161365000170163065000240164765000270167165500390169823083796BJBSDDR20250603155540.0ta230427s2021    enk      b    001 0 eng d  a  2023288090  aGBC1A61682bnb7 a0202491472Uk  a9781780228365 paperback  a1780228368 paperback  z9780297608547qepub  a(OCoLC)on1259540391  aUKMGBbengerdacUKMGBdOCLCOdOCLCFdYDXdFIEdOCLCOdDLC  aeng  alccopycat14aJZ 1418bC778a 202100a327.209221 aCooper, Robert Francis, cSir, d1947- 14aThe ambassadors :bthinking about diplomacy from Machiavelli to modern times /cRobert Cooper.1 iSubtitle from cover :aThinking about diplomacy from Richelieu to modern times 1aLondon :bWeidenfeld & Nicolson,c2021.  axii, 563 pages ;c20 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aHistory 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. --cProvided by publisher. 0aAmbassadors. 4aEmbajadores  0aDiplomacyxHistory. 4aDiplomacia xHistoria  7aHistory.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01411628