Volume 54, Number 15 · October 11, 2007
Are Diplomats Necessary?
By Brian Urquhart
Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite
by Carne Ross
Cornell University Press, 243 pp., $25.00
Diplomacy is one of the world's oldest professions, although diplomatic practice as we know it is a relatively recent development. Using ambassadors and envoys, often distinguished personalities of the time (Dante, Machiavelli, Peter Paul Rubens), was an accepted practice throughout recorded history. It was also regarded, in Europe at least, as 'a kind of activity morally somewhat suspect and incapable of being brought under any system.'[1]
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