Although diplomats negotiate more and more aspects of world affairs from trade and security issues to health, human rights, and the environment we have little idea of, and even less control over, what they are doing in our name. In Independent Diplomat, Carne Ross provides a compelling account of what's wrong with contemporary diplomacy and offers a bold new vision of how it might be put right.
For more than fifteen years, Ross was a British diplomat on the frontlines of numerous international crises, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Afghanistan, and...
Although diplomats negotiate more and more aspects of world affairs from trade and security issues to health, human rights, and the environment we ...
-It's been a long time since I've read a more interesting, informing, and inspiring book.---Bill Moyers What can we do beyond Occupy Wall Street? Political and economic systems are failing us, and it's time for citizens to create change--individually and collaboratively. In The Leaderless Revolution, Carne Ross sounds a call to action. With dramatic stories from the United States and around the world, Ross's analysis contrasts with the naive, Panglossian optimism of globalization boosters like Thomas Friedman. Uncontrolled economic volatility, perpetual insecurity, rampant...
-It's been a long time since I've read a more interesting, informing, and inspiring book.---Bill Moyers What can we do beyond Occupy Wall ...
