Independent Diplomat : : Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite / / Carne Ross.
Although diplomats negotiate more and more aspects of world affairs—from trade and security issues to health, human rights, and the environment—we have little idea of, and even less control over, what they are doing in our name. In Independent Diplomat, Carne Ross provides a compelling account of wh...
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Ross, Carne, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Independent Diplomat : Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite / Carne Ross. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Crises in World Politics Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Embassy -- 3. The Negotiation (1) -- 4. War Stories -- 5. Them and Us -- 6. The Telegram or How to Be Ignored -- 7. The Ambassador -- 8. Star Trek, Wittgenstein and the Problem with Foreign Policy -- 9. The Negotiation (2) -- 10. Independent Diplomat or the Other Side of the Table -- 11. Conclusion – The End of “Diplomacy”? -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although diplomats negotiate more and more aspects of world affairs—from trade and security issues to health, human rights, and the environment—we have little idea of, and even less control over, what they are doing in our name. In Independent Diplomat, Carne Ross provides a compelling account of what's wrong with contemporary diplomacy and offers a bold new vision of how it might be put right.For more than fifteen years, Ross was a British diplomat on the frontlines of numerous international crises, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Afghanistan, and the buildup to the invasion of Iraq, over which he eventually resigned from the British civil service. In 2005, he founded Independent Diplomat, a nonprofit advisory firm that offers diplomatic advice and assistance to poor, politically marginalized or inexperienced governments and political groups, including Kosovo, Somaliland, and the Polisario movement in the Western Sahara, as well as to NGOs and other international institutions.Drawing on vivid episodes from his career in Oslo, Bonn, Kabul, and at the UN Security Council, Ross reveals that many of the assumptions that laypersons and even government officials hold about the diplomatic corps are wrong. He argues passionately and persuasively that the institutions of contemporary diplomacy—foreign ministries, the UN, the EU, and the like—often exclude those they most affect. He exposes the very limited range of evidence upon which diplomats base their reports, and the profoundly closed and undemocratic nature of the world's diplomatic forums. As a diplomat, Ross was encouraged to see the world in a narrow way in which the power of states and interests overwhelmed or excluded more complex, sophisticated ways of understanding.As Ross demonstrates, however, the reality of diplomatic negotiations, whether at the UN or among the warlords of Afghanistan, shows different forces at play, factors ignored in reductionist descriptions and academic theories of "international relations." To cope with the complexities of today's world, diplomats must open their doors—and minds—to a far wider range of individuals and groups, concerns and ideas, than the current and increasingly dysfunctional system allows. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) Diplomacy. Legal History & Studies. Political Science & Political History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801445576 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801459870 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801459870 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801459870/original |
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