The thinking about diplomacy from Machiavelli to modern times Cooper, Robert Francis Sir 1947- creator text bibliography History. enk 2021 monographic eng

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xii, 563 pages ; 20 cm. 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. -- Robert Cooper. Includes bibliographical references and index. Ambassadors Embajadores Diplomacy History Diplomacia Historia JZ 1418 C778a 2021 327.20922 9781780228365 paperback 1780228368 paperback 2023288090 UKMGB 230427 20250603155540.0 23083796 eng