The Diplomats, 1939-1979

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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'sassessment 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. Contents Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction Notes Part One: The War and Its Aftermath 1 Diplomats and Diplomacy During the Second World War Notes 2 The U.S. Department of State from Hull to Acheson Notes 3 His Master’s Voice: Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov as Stalin’s Foreign Commissar Notes Part Two: The Cold War 4 Ernest Bevin and British Foreign Policy, 1945-1951 Notes 5 The Moralist as Pragmatist: John Foster Dulles as Cold War Strategist Notes 6 The Road to Suez: The British Foreign Office and the Quai d’Orsay, 1951-1957 Notes 7 Konrad Adenauer and His Diplomats Notes 8 The Foreign Policy of Charles de Gaulle Notes Part Three: A New Europe? 9 Jean Monnet: The Innovator as Diplomat Notes 10 Adam Rapacki and the Search for European Security Notes Part Four: The Wider World 11 Japan Returns to the World: Yoshida Shigeru and His Legacy Notes 12 In the Shadow of Mao: Zhou Enlai and New China’s Diplomacy Notes 13 Nehru and the Diplomacy of Nonalignment Notes 14 Eban and Israeli Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, War, and Disengagement Notes 15 Sadat: The Calculus of War and Peace Notes 16 The Diplomats and Diplomacy of the United Nations Notes Part Five: Détente and Its Limitations 17 Dean Rusk and the Diplomacy of Principle Notes 18 The New Diplomacy of the West German Ostpolitik Notes 19 Rescuing Choice from Circumstance: The Statecraft of Henry Kissinger Notes 20 Andrei Gromyko as Foreign Minister: The Problems of a Decaying Empire Notes 21 Soviet Ambassadors from Maiskii to Dobrynin Notes 22 From Helsinki to Afghanistan: American Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1975-1979 Notes 23 The News Media and Diplomacy Notes Afterword Index