02394cam a2200469 i 4500 23083796 BJBSDDR 20250603155540.0 ta 230427s2021 enk b 001 0 eng d 2023288090 GBC1A6168 bnb 020249147 Uk 9781780228365 paperback 1780228368 paperback 9780297608547 epub (OCoLC)on1259540391 UKMGB eng rda UKMGB OCLCO OCLCF YDX FIE OCLCO DLC eng lccopycat JZ 1418 C778a 2021 327.20922 Cooper, Robert Francis, Sir, 1947- 42498 The ambassadors : thinking about diplomacy from Machiavelli to modern times / Robert Cooper. Subtitle from cover : Thinking about diplomacy from Richelieu to modern times London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021. xii, 563 pages ; 20 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. -- Provided by publisher. Ambassadors. Embajadores 22194 Diplomacy History. Diplomacia Historia 28232 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 123636 123636 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-05-28 0 JZ 1418 C778a 2021 00000190417 2025-05-28 00:00:00 1 2025-05-28 BK