A Micro-level View of Diplomacy
I.P. Khosla
STUFF HAPPENS: AN ANECDOTAL INSIGHT INTO INDIAN DIPLOMACY by Rajendra Abhyankar Har-Anand Publications, Delhi, 2014, 348 pp., 895
March 2014, volume 38, No 3

A diplomat writes more than anyone in any other profession, apart from journalists, novelists and the like whose very calling is to write. It is not, as far as a diplomat is concerned; his calling is to represent his country abroad, persuading, negotiating, and, as Ernest Satow put it in his Guide to Diplomatic Practice, the application of intelligence and tact to the conduct of relations between nations.

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