Harry Brind, Lying Abroad: Diplomatic Memoirs (London/New York: 1999) pp. xi + 260. [ buy this book ] Richard Faber, A Chain of Cities: Diplomacy at the End of Empire (London/ New York: 2000) pp. vii + 224. [ buy this book ] Sally James, Diplomatic Moves: Life in the Foreign Service (London/New York: 1995) [...]
(Manas Publications: New Delhi, 2000), 455pp. with Index, ISBN 81-7049-102-2. [ buy this book ] This is a book on diplomacy in general and the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in particular. It is also a gem, and a large gem. It breathes life, wisdom, and good humour, and is full of rich detail. I found [...]
(Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham and Oxford, 1999), pp. 281, ISBN 0-8476-9469-0. [ buy this book ] This is the eighth volume in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, and is a very solid addition to it. Cross, who was born of missionary parents in Beijing, spent 32 years in the US Foreign Service, and though [...]
(John Murray Publishers, 2000), ISBN 0-7195-6046-2, Pp. 224, Index, price UK ã17.99. [ buy this book ] In the course of his distinguished diplomatic career Sir John Coles worked in the Cabinet Office and was Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. At the time of his retirement in 1997 he was concluding over [...]
(Ohio State University Press: Columbus, Ohio, 1999), pp. 727, ISBN 0-8142-0740-5 [ buy this book ] This is a massive book in more than one sense. It is over 700 pages long, including an invaluable bibliography which itself stretches over 70 pages. While dwelling chiefly on the Western tradition, it also takes in the Ottoman [...]
