Diplomats: beyond the ambassador’s reception
May 7, 2014
It is sometimes said that a diplomat is someone who thinks twice and then says nothing. In a new book John Young of Nottingham History examines the career of David Bruce, the longest serving US ambassador to the UK, who filled that office between 1961 and 1969. Using insights from historical and diplomatic studies, Professor …
US Foreign Policy in the American Century and After
June 14, 2013
Two key arguments have dominated the historiography of international relations since 1945 – the last half of the “American century.” The first of these stresses that US foreign policy since that date has been guided mainly by economic interests, while the second supposes that the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the …
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