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Getting Our Way
GETTING OUR WAY recounts nine stories from Britains diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years in which the diplomats themselves are at the centre of the narrative. It is an inside account of their extraordinary experiences sometimes in the face of physical danger often at historys hinge. Be it Henry Killigrews mission to Edinburgh in 1572 Castlereagh at the Congress of Vienna Our Man in Washington and the Nassau Deal or the handover of Hong Kong to China we can see how Britain has viewed its interests in the world and sought to advance them. Some of these dramatic episodes record triumph some failure but all of them illustrate how the three pillars of the national interest - security prosperity and values - have been the foundation of British foreign policy for half a century.
Each story is illuminated by colourful anecdotes and insights drawn from Christopher Meyers first-hand experience of international relations. Moreover the book is a salutary reminder that foreign policy and diplomacy begin and end with the national interest. And far from being the preserve of aloof aristocrats the pursuit of our national interest is replete with an extraordinary combination of high principle and low cunning vice and virtue all with the specific aim of getting our way.
Each story is illuminated by colourful anecdotes and insights drawn from Christopher Meyers first-hand experience of international relations. Moreover the book is a salutary reminder that foreign policy and diplomacy begin and end with the national interest. And far from being the preserve of aloof aristocrats the pursuit of our national interest is replete with an extraordinary combination of high principle and low cunning vice and virtue all with the specific aim of getting our way.
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