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  title info:
    title: Great power diplomacy
    sub title: the skill of statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger / A. Wess Mitchell
  name:
    name part: Mitchell, A. Wess
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (353 pages)
  abstract: A captivating history of diplomacy--and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to survive in a dangerous era of great power competition From the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by enemies too numerous or ferocious to defeat solely by force of arms. In these dramatic moments, wise leaders have turned to diplomacy to rearrange the gameboard in their favor and stymie seemingly unstoppable foes. In Great Power Diplomacy, American historian and diplomat A. Wess Mitchell recounts the forgotten story of how history's most legendary empires have used diplomacy as a tool of grand strategy to outwit, outmaneuver, and outlast militarily superior opponents. Through fifteen centuries of history, Great Power Diplomacy recreates the perilous junctures, colorful personalities, and intricate statecraft that led to some of history's most stunning diplomatic achievements--and greatest disasters. The protagonists include giants like Richelieu, Metternich, Bismarck, and Kissinger, but also a lesser-known cast of scoundrels, eunuchs, drunkards, and fools. At every turn, fortune favored those great powers with the foresight and dexterity to build winning alliances, splinter enemy coalitions, and, when necessary, make peace with their bitterest foes. Diplomacy of this kind has become a lost art in recent years as Western elites embraced the illusion that globalization and the spread of democracy would create a borderless world where nations would live in harmony and war would be abolished from the human story. But, as Great Power Diplomacy reveals, we will need to rediscover the secrets of skillful statecraft as the world enters an unstable new era in which continent-sized great powers compete for territory, resources, and prestige. By recalling diplomacy's rich past, we can equip ourselves for a more dangerous future.
  subject:
    topic: Diplomacy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: International relations
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Diplomatie
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Diplomacy
  subject:
    topic: Strategy
  subject:
    topic: Military
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: Other
  subject:
    topic: Comparative Politics
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: International Relations
  subject:
    topic: Diplomacy
  classification: JZ1305 .M58 2025
  classification: 327.101
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Great Power Diplomacy
    name:
      name part: Mitchell, A. Wess
    origin info:
      publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2025
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1513564582
  identifier: 9780691236889 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0691236887
  identifier: 0691236879
  identifier: 9780691236872
  identifier: 22573/cats28550632 JSTOR
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 250913
    record change date: 20251108170817.6
    record identifier: in00005668962
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng