Naked Diplomacy, Tom Fletcher
Naked Diplomacy, Tom Fletcher
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Naked Diplomacy

Author: Tom Fletcher

Narrator: Roger May

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/02/2016

Synopsis

Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust and inequality are fuelling political and economic uncertainty. The scaffolding built around the global order is fragile, and the checks and balances created over centuries to protect liberty are being tested, maybe to destruction. Tom Fletcher, the youngest senior British ambassador for two hundred years, considers how we – as governments, businesses, individuals – can survive and thrive in the twenty first century. And how we can ensure that technology can make it easier of citizens truly to take back control.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bagus on October 19, 2022

Are diplomats still relevant in this digital age? Tom Fletcher managed to instil some hope but also confuse me. Sometimes I find myself questioning the relevance of various statements and communique issued over the years by foreign ministries and international organisations which convey their offici......more

Goodreads review by Laurent De Serres Berard on November 13, 2023

Good book and easy to read, but does not contain outstanding perspective, and despite being accessible and light, the writing is not exceptional. The book seems indecisive on whether it is a collection of reflections from biographic experiences or an essay modern diplomacy. Mixing both make the stru......more

Goodreads review by Karim on March 24, 2018

One of the best books I have ever read on Diplomacy. Tom Fletcher vision on the impact of digital world on diplomacy in the future. The book is discussing if diplomats will be threatened by the existence of social media and how they should interact with the new technologies that appear everyday. We......more

Goodreads review by Jake on July 15, 2024

A collection of extremely prescient essays written in anengaging and informative style. I especially liked his picturing of the future ambassador but also felt he did an effective job of covering counterpoints such as Neil Postman's work.......more

Quotes

‘A riveting personal insight into the reality of international relations’Charlie Burton, GQ ‘Articulate, intelligent and immensely readable … Fletcher is an irrepressible optimist and his enthusiasm is contagious. Britain is fortunate to have diplomats with his skills and drive’Emma Sky, New Statesman ‘Welcome to Britain’s new brand of diplomacy’Evening Standard ‘On Her Majesty’s Service, in a new way. Britain’s mould-breaking ambassador was appointed at only 36 at the height of the Arab Uprisings. Fletcher’s Naked Diplomacy was a new brand of 21st-century statecraft: flexible transparent, engaged with the public as much as with politicians’BBC World Service "A call for us all to reconsider our place in society and in our interconnected world. It urges us to be brave, creative, involved and connected. Diplomacy, he insists, is too important to be left to diplomats and he calls on us “citizen diplomats” to engage with it, to wield power … As the pages turned, I thought this read increasingly as a new manifesto, and I finished it thinking how unsurprised I would be if Fletcher ended up running the Foreign Office, or the country’Anthony Sattin, Observer ‘Brilliant, funny polemic … a cracking read’Roger BoyesThe Times (11 June 2016) ‘A brilliant book’Stig Abell, LBC and Editor of the Times Literary Supplement ‘A diplomatic genius’Gordon Brown

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