Review: General: Positive Diplomacy
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300228 |
| Author | Margaret Doxey |
| Published date | 01 June 1998 |
| Date | 01 June 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
Hollis, former director
of
MI5.
Despite dramatic
changes
in
the
While
Cairncross
emerges
as
the
international
environment,
diplo-
ultimate
unreliable
narrator,
his
macy
as
an
accompaniment
or
alter-
memoir
does
raise
an
intriguing
native
to
other
instruments
of
for-
psychological
question.
If
he
so
eign
policy
remains
a
core
element
wanted
to foist an elaborate
cover-
in
international
relations.
The
post-
story
upon
his
own actions
and
colonial,
post-cold
war
world
con-
memories, why
did
he
spy
at
all?
sists
of
185 states,
many
impover-
Treachery
is
a
mysterious
passion,
as
ished, some 'failing'
or
'failed,'
and
is
spying.
Graham
Greene
noted
in
it
is
rife
with
ethnic
conflict.
At
the
The
Human
Factor
that
agents
can
same
time,
there
are
powerful
trends
be
moved
to
acts
of
appalling
to globalization in
international
treachery
by
watery
cabbage
in
a
economic
relations
and
communi-
departmental
canteen.
For
Cairn-
cations,
as
well
as
problems
of
envi-
cross,
it may
not
have
been watery
ronmental
degradation,
drug
traf-
cabbage. Perhaps
it
was
rather
the ficking,
and
terrorism which
have
elements
of
his
outsider
status;
a
no
respect
for
international
bound-
prickly
Scots
awareness
of
not
fit-
aries.
The
need
for dialogue,
negoti-
ting
in to
the
British
dlie
in
the
ation,
and
co-operation
between
1930s, despite
his
undoubted
intel-
states
requires
little
emphasis; equal-
lectual
gifts;
disappointment
at
not
ly,
the
modern diplomat must
pos-
getting
the
academic
post
he
really
sess
a
wider
range
of
skills
than
the
coveted;
the
scars
of
the
1930s,
traditional
'generalist'
who,
in
the
which
convinced
him that
British words
of
Harold
Nicolson,
exercised
politics
were
rotten;
and
the
sheer
'the
more
guileful
aspects
of
tact.'
Walter
Mitty-ishness
of
it
all.
We
Tasks
are
vastly
more
complex;
roles
shall never
know.
For
the
last
thing
have
to
be
shared
with
ministers
that
Cairncross
intended
to
do
was
and
with
officials
in
other
govern-
to
put
himself
on
the
couch
when
ment
departments;
policy
must
be
he
set
out
to
write
his
memoirs.
co-ordinated
in
the
context
of
a
net-
work
of
international
institutions.
Wesley
K.
Wark, University
of
In
democracies,
pressure
from
the
Toronto
media
and
public
opinion
is
a
pow-
erful
spurt
to
foreign
policy-making
POSITIVE
DIPLOMACY
and
a
harsh
critic.
Peter
Marshall
Positive
Diplomacy
addresses
the
Basingstoke
& New
York:
substance
and
process
of
foreign
Macmillan/St
Martin's,
policy
making,
and,
from
the
point
1997,
xvii,
234
pp,
US$65.00
of
view
of
preparation
for
foreign
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Spring
1998
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