Catch Late Breaking News Stories about DIPLOMACY
Read Some Provocative Articles:
- Joseph S. Nye on recovering America’s “smart power“
- Armed ambassadors: A look at how the military has increasingly assumed a major role in U.S. foreign policy.
- Diplomacy 101: A review of Statecraft: And How to Restore America’s Standing in the World by Dennis Ross.
- Glenn Greenwald on Samantha Power and the foreign policy community.
- From Le Monde diplomatique, the American Century only began 60 years ago. But it seems already to be over, with the disaster of Iraq forcing some of the United States’ ruling elites to realise that its hegemony has been severely weakened. But nobody seems to know what to do next, or even how to behave.
- Calling Miss Manners: If rising powers don’t improve their diplomatic skills, world politics is going to start looking like a bad episode of reality television.
- Are diplomats necessary? A review of Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite by Carne Ross.
- Diplomacy is not all beer and skittles but the book Undiplomatic Activities can give that impression (and more).
- When the world goes to hell, policymakers often turn to ICG president Gareth Evans for solutions. An interview on his take on the Bush administration and our collective responsibility for crises in Burma, Iraq, and possibly Iran.
Read what the Blogosphere has to say about DIPLOMACY and SOFT POWER (including this blog).
Read Some Good Books about DIPLOMACY:
- Robert Jervis, American Foreign Policy In A New Era
- Richard N. Haass, The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course
- Michael Ignatieff , The Lesser Evil : Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
- Joseph S. Nye, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
