This book, based on the Chichele Lectures delivered by Harold Nicolson at the University of Oxford in 1953, provides a comprehensive historical analysis of the evolution of diplomatic methods. Nicolson explores the transformation of diplomatic practices from the Renaissance to modern times, detailing the various methods employed in diplomacy and their impact on international relations.
“Yalta: The Price of Peace” by historian Serhii Plokhy provides a comprehensive examination of the 1945 Yalta Conference, where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin negotiated the political shape of the postwar world. Drawing from newly available archival materials, Plokhy reveals the strategic calculations, personal dynamics, and geopolitical pressures that shaped the decisions leading to the …
This seventh volume of the “Histoire des relations internationales” series examines the dynamics of international relations between 1914 and 1929, a period marked by the outbreak of World War I, major geopolitical changes, the collapse of old empires, and the emergence of new international security systems such as the League of Nations. Pierre Renouvin examines the causes of conflict, warti…
Now, drawing on recently declassified American and British top-secret documents, New York Times bestselling historian John Costello reveals how major strategic and diplomatic miscalculations by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill together with the military blunders committed by General MacArthur set the stage for Japan's successful attacks on Pearl Harbor and Clark Field. For the fir…
Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious persecution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But according to this former Iranian leader - forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs the revolution's original goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play …
When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiotor in late 1995, he book a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.