Publisher's Synopsis
"Diplomats at War: The American Experience." The volume's over-arching aim was to address a straightforward question: What makes an effective wartime diplomatic representative? The volume provides answer in analysis of twenty 'diplomats' - a term broadly conceived. The vast majority of the subjects represented the United States, reflecting the bald facts of international affairs in the latter half of the twentieth century. The volume contributes in an important way as a study of individuals who were operators of national policy often away from the glare of contemporaneous media, and the subsequent attention of historians: there stories are in the main new. The volume also contributes by establishing a framework for analysis that considers broad interpretations of 'Diplomats', 'War', and the 'American Experience' in light of their interrelationship. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Author Biographies J. Simon Rofe & Andrew Stewart, Introduction 1. David Mayers, FDR's Diplomats and Sino-U.S. Crises: Nelson T. Johnson, Clarence Gauss and Patrick Hurley, 1937-1945 2. Thomas Mills, Mobilising the Americas for War: Jefferson Caffery in Brazil, 1937-1944 3. Kenneth Weisbrode, The Unruly Spirit: William Bullitt 1936-1940 4. Priscilla Roberts, "Mr. Anglo-American" Arthur Lehman Goodhart and Second World War Britain 5. Paul Kahan, "Paradoxical and Unprecedented" Myron C. Taylor's Wartime Diplomatic Missions to the Vatican 1939-1950 6. Galen Roger Perras, Besting Those With A Colonial Mentality: Jay Pierrepont Moffat, America's Minister to Canada, 1940-1943 7. Augustine Meaher IV, Uncle Sam's Man Down Under: Nelson Trusler Johnson 8. Graham Cox, Herbert C. Pell, U.S. Representative on the United Nations War Crimes Commission 9. John Mcnay, George V. Allen and the Origins of the Cold War 10. Paul M. McGarr, An Economist with Guns: John Kenneth Galbraith and the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962 11. Christopher Hull, "In the edge of a cyclone" Bill Marchant and the Cuban Missile Crisis 12. Geoffrey C. Stewart, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.: An American Proconsul in Diem's Vietnam 13. Luis Nuno Rodrigues, "Mission Impossible" George Ball and Lisbon's Triumvirate 14. William Michael Schmidli, Robert C. Hill and the Cold War in Latin America 15. Joanne Davies, The United States in Southern Africa: Chester Crocker's Linkage Strategy 1981-1988 16. Marie Gayte, William Wilson, Cold War Diplomat at the Vatican 17. J. Jenner, Making Peace in Ha N i and Washington: General John W. Vessey's Presidential Emissaryship to Vi t Nam, 1987-1994 18. Michael Cairo, Consigliere: James Baker and the Persian Gulf War 1990-1991 Index About the Editors Dr J Simon Rofe is Senior Lecture in Diplomatic and International Studies in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London. His research interests lie in the field of Diplomatic Studies and US Foreign Relations in the twentieth century, with a specific focus on the era of Franklin Roosevelt, and Presidential peacemaking and post-war planning. Dr Andrew Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. Based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College within the UK Defence Academy he is currently the Land Historian supporting the Higher Command and Staff Course and Co-Director of the King's Centre for Military Education and Outreach."
