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The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times by Robert Cooper is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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History does not run in straight lines. It is made by men and women and by accident. The path of events and ideas does not stretch smoothly from Thucydides, through Machiavelli and thence to perpetual peace. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind allies, random events, good intentions that go wrong. This is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a world we can hardly imagine today; but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe. Talleyrand and the Congress of Vienna in 1815 take us closer to the present day. Talleyrand was a man of the ancien regime; but he was the first European statesman to see America. It is at this Congress that, for the first time, a humanitarian question - the slave trade - was discussed. Humanitarian issues have formed part of the diplomatic agenda ever since.

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Author

Robert Cooper

Publisher

Orion; Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780228365

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Politics, Social_sciences

Updated

2026-03-25