The Diplomats, 1939-1979 (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691036136 ISBN 13: 9780691036137

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This volume offers a unique perspective on a turbulent and dangerous age by focusing on the activities and accomplishments of its diplomats. Its twenty-three interconnected essays discuss the policies of ambassadors, foreign ministers, and heads of state from Acheson and Adenauer to Sadat and Gromyko, as well as the special problems of the professionals in the foreign offices and the role of the media in modern diplomacy. Among its contributors are such distinguished international scholars as Akira Iriye, Michael Brecher, Stanley Hoffmann, W. W. Rostow, and Norman Stone.

Expanding the field of inquiry covered by its acclaimed predecessor, The Diplomats, 1919-1939, which concentrated on Europe and the coming of the Second World War, these essays showcase the major diplomatic practitioners of the period against the broader background of the problems and crises that confronted them--among others, the Polish question at the end of World War II, the onset of the Cold War, the defeat of EDC in 1954, the Suez crisis, Khrushchev's Berlin note in 1958, the Middle East War of 1967 and the oil shock of 1973, the Iranian revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This account of the pendular swing from crisis to detente and back again is given a global perspective by careful treatment of the diplomacy of new nations like India, Communist China, and Israel, and of the transformation of the Middle East and Japan.

Among the new perspectives offered here are Geoffrey Warner's critical view of Ernest Bevin's attitude toward the United States, John Lewis Gaddis's judgment of Henry Kissinger's detente policy, W. W. Rostow's analysis of the diplomatic method of Paul Monnet, Rena Fonseca's assessment of Nehru's policy of nonalignment, Shu Guang Zhang's fresh look at the relationship between Zhou Enlai and Mao, and Paul Gordon Lauren's critique of U.N. crisis management from Trygve Lie to Perez de Cuellar. Highly original also are Steven Miner's portrait of Molotov, Michael Brecher's pioneering study of the diplomacy of Abba Eben, and James McAdams's analysis of German Ostpolitik.

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About the Author

Gordon A. Craig is Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University and Honorarprofessor at the Free University of Berlin; Francis L. Loewenheim is Professor of History at Rice University.

From Library Journal

This is a worthy successor to the classic The Diplomats, 1919-1939 (1953), which Craig coedited with Felix Gilbert. Craig and Lowenheim, who have both published extensively on modern European history, have gathered together an outstanding group of prominent historians and commentators, including such well-known scholars as Richard Challener, Stanley Hoffmann, Akira Iriye, Ernest R. May, and W.W. Rostow, to draft significant essays treating a wide range of foreign policy issues of the period. Casting a wider interpretive net than the earlier volume, The Diplomats, 1939-1979 considers diplomats throughout the world, including India's Jawaharlal Nehru, China's Zhou Enlai, and Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Familiar names like John Foster Dulles, Ernest Bevin, Konrad Adenauer, Dean Acheson, Charles de Gaulle, Dean Rusk, Henry Kissinger, and Andrei Gromyko also receive their due. Of particular interest is Ernest May's discussion of the impact of the news media on the conduct of diplomacy. This excellent collection by long-established and well-regarded figures in the academic community is essential for all academic and large public libraries.
Ed Goedeken, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames
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Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0691036136
• ISBN 13: 9780691036137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 725
• Editor: Craig Gordon A., Loewenheim Francis L.