Diplomacy and its Discontents
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1971
- Category
- General, North America, History & Theory, General
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- ISBN
- 9781487596569
- Publish Date
- Jan 1971
- List Price
- $25.95
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James Eayrs is a keen and articulate observer of international politics. His incisive critiques of the moral turpitude and inefficiency of the diplomatic profession in Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy and Fate and Will in Foreign Policy provoked unflattering attention and attempts at rebuttal by the statesmen and politicians who shape our foreign policy.
This volume makes these two controversial studies available once more, bringing them up to date with discussions of the 'October crisis' in Quebec and other recent events, and incorporating the author's selection of his recent writings on the irrelevance, or deliquescence, of modern diplomacy. All three parts of the book hold to a single theme – the decay of diplomatic method. In the incisive prose characteristic of all Eayrs' writing, these discourses present a convincing view of the tragi-comedy of foreign affairs. The general reader and the student of politics and international affairs will find this a perceptive analysis of statecraft, full of insights into the workings of government.
About the author
James Eayrs is a former professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto and a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University. He received the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 1965 for the first two volumes of In Defence of Canada. Among his other books are The Art of the Possible and Diplomacy and its Discontents.
Other titles by
In Defence of Canada Vol IV
Growing Up Allied
The Art of the Possible
Government and Foreign Policy in Canada
In Defence of Canada Volume I
From the Great War to the Great Depression
In Defence of Canada Volume II
Appeasement and Rearmament
Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy
In Defence of Canada V4
In Defence of Canada Volume III
Peacemaking and Deterrence