Diplomacy and its Discontents /

Diplomacy and its Discontents / / James Eayrs.

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 th...

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

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