Is the time of great diplomats, like that of cathedrals, over?
Is the era of extraordinary negotiators who were able to obtain the signature of a treaty, reach an agreement after thankless negotiations or simply turn their backs in the face of adversity over?
This is what Hubert Védrine - former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Lionel Jospin under the presidency of Jacques Chirac - seems to think, without completely resolving to do, who has directed a collective work containing around twenty vivid portraits of these princes of diplomacy.
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However, there is no nostalgia in his observation, but rather concern.
A world is leaving, undoubtedly very harsh but whose tacit rules we knew.
Another emerges in the fog, much more moving, treacherous, uncertain, with blurred borders;
a world both troubled and eager for “transparency”, subject to “com” and the ephemeral.
Old-fashioned diplomats, who love secrecy and power…
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