Naked Diplomat

Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age

AvTom Fletcher

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Engelska, 2016

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The case for paring diplomacy back to its essential elements. Stripped of the paraphernalia, what is it really about, and why does it still matter? The essential attributes are now thick skin, an open mind and a smart phone.In next century we will need to deal with equivalent in social development of last 43 centuries: like the change from cave paintings to the atom bomb. We will see the arrival of the digital native; the rebirth of the city state; the battle for new energy; disappearing borders; disruption and diplomacy. So who will really be in charge of the 21st century? Will Google be the new emperors? How do you influence the future?In `The Naked Diplomat’, Tom Fletcher – an experienced foreign representative – explores the core principles of a progressive 21st century foreign policy: how to balance interventionism and national interest, use global governance structures to achieve national objectives and explore representative international systems. Re-evaluating the core question for diplomacy – Who do we represent? – Fletcher discusses smart power, soft power and the new interventionism alongside lessons from our most notorious leaders and diplomats – Talleyrand, Kissinger, Mandela and the Kennedys.Offering real-world examples of how diplomacy is having a significant impact on people's lives, and why it will continue to do so, this is the refreshed case for diplomacy in the digital century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-02
Språk:Engelska
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780008127572
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers

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Tom Fletcher CMG is Visiting Professor of International Relations at New York University, and the UK's former Ambassador to Lebanon. He advises the Global Business Coalition for Education and the Emirates Diplomatic Academy, and chairs the International Advisory Board of the Creative Industries Federation. Tom is married to Dr Louise Fletcher, a psychologist, and they have two sons.

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‘A riveting personal insight into the reality of international relations’Charlie Burton, GQ‘Articulate, intelligent and immensely readable … Fletcher is an irrepressible optimist and his enthusiasm is contagious. Britain is fortunate to have diplomats with his skills and drive’Emma Sky, New Statesman‘Welcome to Britain’s new brand of diplomacy’Evening Standard‘On Her Majesty’s Service, in a new way. Britain’s mould-breaking ambassador was appointed at only 36 at the height of the Arab Uprisings. Fletcher’s Naked Diplomacy was a new brand of 21st-century statecraft: flexible transparent, engaged with the public as much as with politicians’BBC World Service"A call for us all to reconsider our place in society and in our interconnected world. It urges us to be brave, creative, involved and connected. Diplomacy, he insists, is too important to be left to diplomats and he calls on us “citizen diplomats” to engage with it, to wield power … As the pages turned, I thought this read increasingly as a new manifesto, and I finished it thinking how unsurprised I would be if Fletcher ended up running the Foreign Office, or the country’Anthony Sattin, Observer‘Brilliant, funny polemic … a cracking read’Roger BoyesThe Times (11 June 2016)‘A brilliant book’Stig Abell, LBC and Editor of the Times Literary Supplement‘A diplomatic genius’Gordon Brown