The Value of Professional Diplomats

A. Wess Mitchell, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, historian, and author of Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger, joins the show to discuss just what diplomacy is.

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    •      01:37 Introduction

    •      02:08 Bad reutation 

    •      04:37 Misconceptions         

    •      09:35 A part of grand strategy 

    •      13:11 Not trickery         

    •      18:05 Attila the Hun          

    •      24:17 Appeasement      

    •      35:00 Other options         

    •      39:33 The State Department 

    •      44:22 Molding diplomats      

    •      47:31 Ukraine        

    •      52:47 Major risks

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