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Independent Diplomat: Dispatches
from an
Unaccountable Elite Book
available to buy now
Independent
Diplomat: Dispatches from an
Unaccountable Elite by Carne Ross, Independent Diplomat’s
founder and
director, is now on sale in the United Kingdom, published by Hurst & Co. To read the New
York Times' 'Saturday Profile' of Carne Ross, printed 3 March
2007,
click here.
The book can be purchased
online
through Hurst Publishers, and Amazon. To buy
the book from Hurst Publishers please click here. To buy
the book from Amazon please clickhere.
Book
Reviews:
'Carne
Ross's book has a firsthand quality that deserves attention.'
Sir Brian Urquhart, New York Review of Books
'a fascinating
new book ... Ross's is also much more interesting than the
average diplomat’s memoir, because it goes well beyond the
usual accounts of
negotiations and shifting positions, and gives an insightful account of
the
psychology of the people making policy.' Gideon
Rachman, Financial Times
'a dissident diplomat's
fascinating, succinctly readable...
polemic against contemporary
diplomacy.' Christopher
Meyer, The Sunday Times
'This is a
small
book with a big agenda: changing the face of British diplomacy. This
eloquent
memoir focuses on the "diplomatic deficit" Ross has identified from
his postings to Bonn,
Afghanistan
and New
York.
Ross rightly excoriates the "pact between the unaccountable and the
irresponsible" in which the public gets on with life while the
diplomats
get on with dealing with the world, whatever the consequences.' Anne Penketh, The Independent
'This is a rare
and honest book about real-life diplomacy, reported from the
coal-face. Ross diagnoses much that is wrong with the way diplomacy is
practised today, and offers some cogent - and urgent -
solutions.' George Soros
'[Ross] exposes the absurdity, the ignorance and indifference of
international
bureaucracies, quietly and with clear-sighted accuracy. His prose is
ironic,
measured and elegant. The integrity, the nuance of his account and his
self-awareness make him impressive not just as a writer but as a
person.' Rory Stewart,
author, The Places in Between
