Diplomacy and its Discontents / / James Eayrs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Eayrs, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)

James Eayrs is a keen and articulate observer of international politics. His incisive critiques of the moral turpitude and inefficiency of the diplomatic profession in Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy and Fate and Will in Foreign Policy provoked unflattering attention and attempts at rebuttal by the statesmen and politicians who shape our foreign policy. This volume makes these two controversial studies available once more, bringing them up to date with discussions of the 'October crisis' in Quebec and other recent events, and incorporating the author's selection of his recent writings on the irrelevance, or deliquescence, of modern diplomacy. All three parts of the book hold to a single theme – the decay of diplomatic method. In the incisive prose characteristic of all Eayrs' writing, these discourses present a convincing view of the tragi-comedy of foreign affairs. The general reader and the student of politics and international affairs will find this a perceptive analysis of statecraft, full of insights into the workings of government.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. THE DELIQUESCENCE OF DIPLOMACY -- 1. The clearing of the chanceries -- 2. The ambassador as hostage -- 3. The correspondent and the diplomat -- 4. 'Rally round the file, boys!' -- 5. 'Live, and let Nelson Eddy live' -- 6. A foreign policy for beavers -- 7. Principles for receivership -- 8. Trade, not braid -- 9. The selling of the think-tank -- 10. The deliquescence of diplomacy -- Part II. FATE AND WILL IN FOREIGN POLICY -- 1. Left and right -- 2. The vital centre -- 3. Ignorance and knowledge -- 4. Blindness and prevision -- 5. Inertia and innovation -- 6. Force and impotence -- 7. Weakness and power -- 8. Stupidity and power -- Part III. RIGHT AND WRONG IN FOREIGN POLICY -- 1. The ways of statecraft -- 2. The ways of keeping faith -- 3. The words of world politics -- Acknowledgments