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'This is a rare and honest book about real-life diplomacy, reported from thecoal-face. Ross diagnoses much that is wrong with the way diplomacy ispractised today, and offers some cogent-and urgent-solutions.' -GeorgeSoros, The Soros Foundation, New York'Carne Ross's book fills a significant need in the literature on the theory andpractice of contemporary diplomacy. There have been numbers of valuablecritical works on issues in contemporary diplomacy, but a limiting factorhas been that they speak from the 'outside', as it were, offering analyticalobservations rather than recording experiences and using them as a basis fora more richly-informed critique. Independent Diplomat promises to lift theveil from practices and institutions which of their nature have been shroudedin secrecy, if not exactly in mystery.' -Professor William Maley, AM, Director,Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University'[Ross] exposes the absurdity, the ignorance and indifference of internationalbureaucracies, quietly and with clear-sighted accuracy. His prose is ironic,measured and elegant. The integrity, the nuance of his account and his selfawarenessmake him impressive not just as a writer but as a person.' -RoryStewart, author, The Places in Between'In his stunning insight into the surreal world of British diplomacy, Carne Ross,who resigned from the Foreign Office in disillusion over the Blair government'sdisgraceful role in the United Nations debate before the Iraq war,writes about this emerging multilateral world in his book, Independent Diplomat.He calls for the creation of an elected UN parliamentary assembly whichwould initially have rights of consultation but which would eventually have tobe given direct democratic oversight of the UN and its agencies. Ross drawsheavily on the experience of the European Union in this context. He rightlydraws attention to the increasingly important role of the directly electedEuropean parliament in calling the EU institutions to account. However, thisprocess has only begun.' -The Guardian
Rory Stewart, author, The Places in Between and The Prince of the Marshes
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international bureaucracies, quietly and with clear-sighted accuracy.'
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