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Not Quite the Diplomat

Home Truths About World Affairs

By Chris Patten

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| eBook | 9780141902654

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Not Quite the Diplomat describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events. In examining how we got to where we are, he writes candidly about many of the major players and what happened behind closed doors.Continue

Not Quite the Diplomat describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events. In examining how we got to where we are, he writes candidly about many of the major players and what happened behind closed doors. In arguing about where we should be, he writes with the directness of a man freed at last from the bonds of diplomatic restraint.



Will the British still be trying to work out who we are and what we want to be as the world moves on? How far can Europe expand - and is Europe all a terrible mistake or where our destiny lies? Does the old, fractured Western alliance still have the time and the will to shape the world before the rise of India and China? Chris Patten's answers to these questions are pungent and devastatingly well informed. No recent book by a politician of any political persuasion has been so engaging, so outspoken - and often so funny. If Chris Patten is no longer the diplomat, it is the readers of this book who are the beneficiaries.

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  • No direction home

    Not Quite the Diplomat by Chris Patten 323pp, Allen Lane, £20 In effect, this is Part Two of Chris Patten's memoirs, even though he explicitly eschews the idea of writing a memoir. Admittedly, his memoirs deal only with the more recent episodes of hi ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • A farewell despatch

    Chris Patten was the star of the 1979 intake of Conservative MPs. In today’s unattractive phrase, he ticked all the boxes. Head of the Conservative Research Department at the absurdly early age of 27, he acquired an early and easy familiarity with po ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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    A serious view of the world from the British point of view.

    A serious tug between shouldering a once powerful nation legacy and the real pragmatic and implementable policies of this nation in decline.

    A must read for all those who wants to pity those who still screams "two world wars and ... (continue)

    A serious view of the world from the British point of view.

    A serious tug between shouldering a once powerful nation legacy and the real pragmatic and implementable policies of this nation in decline.

    A must read for all those who wants to pity those who still screams "two world wars and one world cup"

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    pakman said on Mar 13, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Enjoy reading his interesting, infiormative analysis on the relationship between US and EU - in a funny way.

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    RL said on Dec 28, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • A passionate politican wrote like a historian. He is the one who doesn't show any resistance, skeptism or suspicion about China's development. For me, he isn't pro or anti anything about China, but a British who faces it as it is. I can't find anyone who believes and advocates so much about the way ... (continue)

    A passionate politican wrote like a historian. He is the one who doesn't show any resistance, skeptism or suspicion about China's development. For me, he isn't pro or anti anything about China, but a British who faces it as it is. I can't find anyone who believes and advocates so much about the way to deal with China is to involve her into the global arena politically and economically.
    Apart from it, the bitterness of describing his encountering with several European leaders (or ex-leaders now) is quite another story.

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    HENRY said on Apr 30, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • eBook 368 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0141902655
  • ISBN-13: 9780141902654
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Pub date: Jun 01, 2006
  • Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
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