The Diplomat's Dictionary

by Chas W. Freeman Jr.

In this entertaining and informative collection, career diplomat Chas Freeman brings together keen observations, witty insights, shrewd advice, and classic words of wisdom on the art and practice of diplomacy. In so doing, this wide-ranging compendium draws on many cultures, ancient and modern. This revised edition adds about eighty new entries to the text. Like the first edition, it should be useful to "anyone who may be called upon to deal with complex and challenging situations in cross-cultural circumstances.

Genres: Politics

451 pages, Paperback

First published November 28, 1995

Reviews

[Daniel Evensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Freeman's Diplomat's Dictionary is extremely well done. This is more a quotation book than a traditional dictionary, though it does include a few definitions sprinkled about from place to place. Freeman has gathered together the best advice from famous world leaders, diplomats, and those who study them and laid it all out in an easy-to-use, alphabetically-ordered grouping of quotations.

My only quibble with this book is that some quotations are repeated. There are also a few grammatical issues, both from older English authors who love wordy phrases and in a few rather poorly translated passages from classical sources.

The best quotes in this book are without a doubt the ones that Freeman himself wrote. I would welcome a book comprising only his sayings and thoughts on some of these weighty matters. The worst tend to come from the academics, who couldn't tell you that it's raining outside without adding in a few qualifiers for good measure.

[Alex]

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