DescriptionThere are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance between two informed partners, determined by an elaborate set of elegant and unwritten rules. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. Like when a large, heavily fortified and armoured empire makes a faintly menacing request of a much smaller, infinitely more cowardly neighbour. It would be churlish, if not extremely dangerous, not to comply; particularly if all they want is a wizard, and they don't specify whether competence is an issue.
DescriptionNOTE: This audiobook is in Portuguese. People who don't go after what they want end up empty-handed. Are you the type of person who finds it difficult to translate ideas into action? Do you want to learn how to "jump over walls"? Then listen to O Diplomatico by Machado de Assis and learn what you have to do. Original Portuguese description: Quem muito quer...nada alcanca...Mas se n?o correr atras do que se quer, pode-se acabar de m?os vazias...Voce e do tipo que vacila muito entre a ideia e a ac?o? Quer aprender a "saltar muros"? Ent?o ouca O Diplomatico, de Machado de Assis e aprenda o que n?o se deve fazer.
DescriptionIn this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a…
DescriptionIn this timely, thoughtful, and important audiobook, America's most famous diplomatist explains why we urgently need a new and coherent foreign policy and what our foreign policy goals should be in the post-Cold War era. Dr. Kissinger focuses his atten…
