Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs - Softcover

Patten, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141021446 ISBN 13: 9780141021447

Publisher: Penguin, 2006

Synopsis

Not Quite the Diplomat describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events.

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Review:

'Patten writes with wit, elegance and passion, showing a candour and courage uncommon among politicians in democratic societies today' -- Stephen Graubard, The Sunday Telegraph, September 25, 2005

'an excellent new book' -- Philip Stephens, The Financial Times, 7 October 2005

'an exhilirating critique of where we stand today as an international community' -- Douglas Hurd, New Statesman, 3 October 2005

Synopsis:

"Not Quite the Diplomat" describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events. In examining how we got to where we are, he writes candidly about many of the major players and what happened behind closed doors. In arguing about where we should be, he writes with the directness of a man freed at last from the bonds of diplomatic restraint. Will the British still be trying to work out who we are and what we want to be as the world moves on? How far can Europe expand and is Europe all a terrible mistake or where our destiny lies? Does the old, fractured Western alliance still have the time and the will to shape the world before the rise of India and China? Chris Patten's answers to these questions are pungent and devastatingly well informed. No recent book by a politician of any political persuasion has been so engaging, so outspoken and often so funny. If Chris Patten is no longer the diplomat, it is the readers of this book who are the beneficiaries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141021446
• ISBN 13: 9780141021447
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 329