Diplomats at war
Subtitle: the American experience
By: edited by J. Simon Rofe and Andrew Stewart
Series: History of international relations, diplomacy, and intelligence -- 24; History of international relations library -- 36; History of international relations, diplomacy, and intelligence -- v. 24
Publisher: Republic of Letters
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9789089791092; 9789089791108
Subjects: Diplomacy; Foreign relations; Diplomatic relations
Description: The November 2010 publication of over 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables by the Wikileaks organisation put the spotlight of the world's attention on American diplomats. Beyond various sensationalist headlines, perhaps the most remarkable insight these releases provide is the tale of diligent, thoughtful and professional diplomats from the United States and other nations conducting the bidding of their governments; diplomacy, often in times of acute crisis brought on by war. The forebears of those currently assigned to Kabul and Baghdad, and London and Beijing, have an equally compelling tale to tell. In 'Diplomatic Investigations' (1966) British historian Herbert Butterfield sagely remarked that "Diplomacy may include anything short of actual war, therefore, and sometimes the kindest thing that one can say of it is that it is better than having the guns actually firing." 0Also part of series: History of International Relations Library; 36.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: FDR's Diplomats and Sino-U.S. Crises: Nelson T. Johnson, Clarence Gauss and Patrick Hurley, 1937-1945  -- David Mayers -- 2.; title: Mobilising the Americas for War: Jefferson Caffery in Brazil, 1937-1944  -- Thomas Mills -- 3.; title: The Unruly Spirit: William Bullitt 1936-1940  -- Kenneth Weisbrode -- 4.; title: "Mr. Anglo-American": Arthur Lehman Goodhart and Second World War Britain  -- Priscilla Roberts -- 5.; title: "Paradoxical and Unprecedented": Myron C. Taylor's Wartime Diplomatic Missions to the Vatican 1939-1950  -- Paul Kahan -- 6.; title: Besting Those With A Colonial Mentality: Jay Pierrepont Moffat, America's Minister to Canada, 1940-1943  -- Galen Rogers Perras -- 7.; title: Uncle Sam's Man Down Under: Nelson Trusler Johnson  -- Augustine Meaher IV -- 8.; title: Herbert C. Pell, U.S. Representative on the United Nations War Crimes Commission  -- Graham Cox -- 9.; title: George V. Allen and the Origins of the Cold War  -- John Mcnay -- 10.; title: An Economist with Guns: John Kenneth Galbraith and the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962  -- Paul M. McGarr -- 11.; title: "In the edge of a cyclone": Bill Marchant and the Cuban Missle Crisis  -- Christopher Hull -- 12.; title: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.: An American Procunsul in Diem's Vietnam  -- Geoffrey C. Stewart -- 13.; title: "Mission Impossible": George Ball and Lisbon's Triumvirate  -- Luis Nuno Rodrigues -- 14.; title: Robert C. Hill and the Cold War in Latin America  -- William Michael Schmidli -- 15.; title: The United States in Southern Africa: Chester Crocker's Linkage Strategy 1981-1988  -- Joanne Davies -- 16.; title: William Wilson, Cold War Diplomat at the Vatican  -- Marie Gayte -- 17.; title: Making Peace in Ha Noi and Washington: General John Q. Vessey's Presidential Emissaryship to Viet Nam, 1987-1994  -- J. Jenner -- 18.; title: Consigliere: James Baker and the Persian Gulf War 1990-1991 -- Michael Cairo.