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S'està carregant… Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs (edició 2006)de Chris Patten
Informació de l'obraNot Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs de Chris Patten
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   )1   Schmerguls | Jul 21, 2014 |  Patten's book is a joy to read, just as Patten himself is usually a joy to listen to. Americans may well get a lot more out of it than Europeans. I may be wrong; part of the problem is that I know Patten well enough that I don't find any of the views he expresses here surprising, and in fact I already agree with most of them. He is eloquent and specific on how the British Conservative government screwed up its relationship with Europe (though his assertion that this only really happened after he was kicked out of Parliament in 1992 is at variance with my memory). He is brilliant on the need for the EU to develop a sensible approach to the rest of the world, especially the rising powers of India and China, but also in its own neighbourhood, by integrating the Balkans and Turkey through the prospect of membership. He is also brilliant on the US - writing as a passionate admirer of the American project, but one who is deeply dismayed by the Rumsfeld/Cheney domination of foreign policy. (  )1 nwhyte | Aug 25, 2007 | )1 davetherave | Sep 3, 2006 |  devarebeke | Mar 24, 2008 | ) adamvasco | Oct 5, 2006 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Not Quite the Diplomatdescribes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events. In examining how we got to where we are, he writes candidly about many of the major players and what happened behind closed doors. In arguing about where we should be, he writes with the directness of a man freed at last from the bonds of diplomatic restraint. Will the British still be trying to work out who we are and what we want to be as the world moves on? How far can Europe expand - and is Europe all a terrible mistake or where our destiny lies? Does the old, fractured Western alliance still have the time and the will to shape the world before the rise of India and China? Chris Patten's answers to these questions are pungent and devastatingly well informed. No recent book by a politician of any political persuasion has been so engaging, so outspoken - and often so funny. If Chris Patten is no longer the diplomat, it is the readers of this book who are the beneficiaries. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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