The World Stage: 25 Key Books Discussing Foreign Relations
Diplomatic Memoirs, Imperial Encounters, World Wars, and the Evolution of International OrderBy Olga Alekseevna Novikova, James W. Gerard, John Hall, Henry Morgenthau, French Strother, G. F. Abbott, John Holladay Latané, Iraq Study Group, Gilbert Murray, Thomas Baines, Karl Max FÃ1⁄4rst von Lichnowsky, Newton Macmillan, R. B. Haldane Viscount Haldane, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Joachim Hane, J. Ewing Ritchie, John Alfred Langford, William Le Queux, Percy F. Martin, Ephraim Douglass Adams, Ernest Mason Satow, John Harington Gubbins
Length201h 4m
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The World Stage: 25 Key Books Discussing Foreign Relations assembles a capacious archive of international thought, tracing diplomacy from imperial rivalry and wartime crisis to collective security and the strategic dilemmas of the postwar order. Its selections range across diplomatic memoir, political history, policy analysis, travel-inflected observation, polemic, and institutional report. Accounts of the Ottoman world, the origins of the First World War, the practice of negotiation, and the Iraq Study Group's assessment of a modern conflict make the volume especially valuable as a record of changing assumptions about power, sovereignty, and peace. The contributors include diplomats, statesmen, historians, journalists, jurists, military leaders, and public intellectuals whose careers connected them directly to the machinery of foreign affairs. Figures associated with European imperialism, Anglo-American diplomacy, internationalism, and twentieth-century security policy appear beside observers of Russia, the Balkans, the Near East, and colonial frontiers. Read together, these voices illuminate both the aspirations of liberal international cooperation and the durable pressures of national interest, empire, war, and strategic calculation. This collection is recommended for students of diplomatic history, international relations, and political thought, as well as readers seeking primary perspectives on world affairs. By placing divergent genres and historical moments in dialogue, it invites critical comparison: between witness and analyst, idealism and realpolitik, and the immediate crisis and its longer historical interpretation. It offers an unusually broad education in how foreign relations have been imagined, contested, and conducted.
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GenrePolitics and Government, Literary Classics
Length201 hrs 4 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
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Table of contents
1The Journal of Joachim Hane from November 1653 to February 1654
2The Journall of Mr. Joachim Hane his Passages in France in the yeare 1653. (pt. 1)
3The Journall of Mr. Joachim Hane his Passages in France in the yeare 1653. (pt. 2)
4Footnote
5Collection of State-papers: First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America
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6Collection of State-papers: First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America
7[Entered at Stationers-Hall.]
8PETITION OF LEYDEN.
9AN ESSAY ON Canon and Feudal Law.
10FINIS.
11Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
12Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
13AMBASSADOR MORGENTHAU’S STORY
14CHAPTER II THE “BOSS SYSTEM” IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND HOW IT PROVED USEFUL TO GERMANY
15CHAPTER IV GERMANY MOBILIZES THE TURKISH ARMY
16CHAPTER VI WANGENHEIM TELLS THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR HOW THE KAISER STARTED THE WAR
17CHAPTER XI GERMANY FORCES TURKEY INTO THE WAR
18CHAPTER XIII THE INVASION OF NOTRE DAME DE SION
19CHAPTER XVI THE TURKS PREPARE TO FLEE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE AND ESTABLISH A NEW CAPITAL IN ASIA MINOR—THE ALLIED FLEET BOMBARDING THE DARDANELLES
20CHAPTER XVIII THE ALLIED ARMADA SAILS AWAY, THOUGH ON THE BRINK OF VICTORY
21CHAPTER XX MORE ADVENTURES OF THE FOREIGN RESIDENTS
22CHAPTER XXII THE TURK REVERTS TO THE ANCESTRAL TYPE
23CHAPTER XXV TALAAT TELLS WHY HE “DEPORTS” THE ARMENIANS
24CHAPTER XXVI ENVER PASHA DISCUSSES THE ARMENIANS
25CHAPTER XXVIII ENVER AGAIN MOVES FOR PEACE—FAREWELL TO THE SULTAN AND TO TURKEY
26My Four Years in Germany
27MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY
28CHAPTER III
29CHAPTER VII
30CHAPTER X
31CHAPTER XI
32CHAPTER XIII
33CHAPTER XIV
34CHAPTER XVIII
35CHAPTER XX
36The Problem of Foreign Policy
37The Problem of Foreign Policy
38PREFACE
39THE PROBLEM OF FOREIGN POLICY
40From Isolation to Leadership, Revised
41PREFACE
42V
43VIII
44XI
45INDEX
46Imperialism in South Africa
47Imperialism in South Africa
48ANNEXATION OF THE TRANSVAAL.
49DR. BARNARDO’S HOMES FOR DESTITUTE CHILDREN.
50The War with Russia; Its Origin and Cause
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