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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452850103321

Autore

Hill Charles <1936->

Titolo

Grand strategies [[electronic resource] ] : literature, statecraft, and world order / / Charles Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-300-16593-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

809/.933581

Soggetti

Diplomacy in literature

International relations in literature

Diplomacy - History

International relations - History

Politics and literature - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-343) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Classical orders -- Creative disorder -- Sources of modern world order -- What kind of state? -- Enlightenment : critique of diplomacy, state, and system -- America : a new idea -- Disorder and war -- The imported state -- The writer and the state -- Epilogue: Talleyrand and everything else.

Sommario/riassunto

"The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm," writes Charles Hill in this powerful work on the practice of international relations. "It is where the greatest issues of the human condition are played out."A distinguished lifelong diplomat and educator, Hill aims to revive the ancient tradition of statecraft as practiced by humane and broadly educated men and women. Through lucid and compelling discussions of classic literary works from Homer to Rushdie, Grand Strategies represents a merger of literature and international relations, inspired by the conviction that "a grand strategist . . . needs to be immersed in classic texts from Sun Tzu to Thucydides to George Kennan, to gain real-world experience through internships in the realms of statecraft, and to bring this learning and experience to bear on contemporary issues."This fascinating and



engaging introduction to the basic concepts of the international order not only defines what it is to build a civil society through diplomacy, justice, and lawful governance but also describes how these ideas emerge from and reflect human nature.