by Tom Fletcher
Maduro, Nicolás, 230
Maggi, Ottaviano, 91
Major, John, 90, 219
Malmesbury, James Harris, Earl of, 101–2
Mandela, Nelson, 97–8, 102
Márquez, Gabriel García, 123
Mattingly, Garrett, 153
May, Cicely, 68
Mbeki, Thabo, 75
Medici, Cosimo de’, 31
Merkel, Angela, 73, 178
Metternich, Prince Klemens von, 51–2, 95
Meyer, Sir Christopher, 92, 98
Michelangelo, 178
Mikati, Najib, 184
Milan, 31–2
Miles, Oliver, 83, 93, 96
Miliband, David, 69, 120–1
Milton, John, 83n
Mitchell, David, 90
Mitchell, George, 177
Mitford, Bertie, 56
Mitford, David, 57
Mitford, Nancy, 56
Morris, Ian, 109
Morse, Samuel, 65
Moses, 27, 118
Mosul, 233
Mugabe, Robert, 5, 41
Mullin, Chris, 79
Murat, Caroline, 51
Murrow, Edward, 96
Mussolini, Benito, 62
Naím, Moisés, 225
Napoleon Bonaparte, 12, 45–6, 50–3, 55
Napoleon III, Emperor, 57
Nasrallah, Hassan, 180
National Health Service, 134
NATO, 135, 253, 256
Nelson, Admiral Horatio, 172
New York Times, 224
Newton, Isaac, 94
NGOs, 16, 77, 111, 115, 164, 223, 263, 266
Nicolson, Harold, 21, 88, 92–3, 96, 100, 107, 267
Nigeria, 144
Nigusie, Kalkedan, 162
Nilekani, Nandan, 247
Nixon, Richard M., 11
Nobel Peace Prize, 140
‘non-denial denials’, 152
North Korea, 16, 251
North Pole, melting of, 240
Northern Ireland, 96, 169–70, 172–3, 179, 181
notes verbales, 43
Nye, Joseph, 256
Obama, Barack, 5–6, 70, 73, 128, 221, 235, 248, 278
and social media, 80–1
and US foreign policy, 217–18, 252–3, 255
Occupy Wall Street, 230–1
Odysseus, 95, 118
Official Secrets Act, 118, 126, 127n
oil reserves, 262
Old Testament, 118
Oliver, Jamie, 8
Olmert, Ehud, 71
Omand, Sir David, 125
Oxfam, 72
Page, Larry, 108
Pakistan, 135, 152, 154, 251
Palestine, 19, 61, 82, 154, 170, 179–80, 204, 237, 251, 278
Palmerston, Viscount, 48, 65, 95, 257
Paris attacks, 232
Paris climate change agreement, 261
Parker, Andrew, 126
Patten, Chris, 76, 99–100, 259
Pearl River Delta, 224
Pelé, 249
Pepys, Samuel, 35
Peretti, Jonah, 150
pessimism, 239–43
Petrarch, 32
Pirate Party, 160
Ploden Report, 69
Plymouth, 202
‘pool sprays’, 12, 76
Postal Convention, 40
Postman, Neil, 241
post-traumatic stress disorder, 258
Powell, Colin, 73
Powell, Jonathan, 173
Power, Samantha, 81
Premiership football, 138, 140–1
Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, 164
printing press, 18, 22, 30–1, 84, 226, 229
proxenos, 28
Putin, Vladimir, 71, 99, 129, 220–1
Puttnam, David, 19
Qianlong, Emperor, 44
Qin Er Shi, Emperor, 1–2
Rabin, Yitzhak, 170
Rameses II, Pharaoh, 27
Randall, Jonathan, 235
Reagan, Ronald, 88, 90, 136, 145
‘red lines’, 13
Rees, Sir Martin, 241
Reformation, 31, 36
Responsibility to Protect (R2P), 219, 255, 278
Rice, Susan, 81
Richelieu, Cardinal, 36, 42, 95
ritual disembowelment, ambassador witnesses, 56
Roberts, Sir Ivor, 155
Rodier, Bernard du, 21
Roe, Thomas, 37
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 53, 62, 77, 95
Roosevelt, Theodore, 2, 61, 135, 138, 147, 269
Ross, Alec, 166
Rouhani, Hassan, 235–6
royal family, 139–40
Royal Ulster Constabulary, 169
Rumsfeld, Donald, 256
Russia
aggression in Eastern Europe, 251
and climate change, 171
crisis with Ukraine, 135, 220
Internet censorship, 129
and soft power, 142
and Syria crisis, 219, 256
and UN Security Council, 255–6, 261
Rwandan genocide, 232
Sackville-West, Vita, 92
Sade, Marquis de, 98
Salisbury, Lord, 86
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 66, 71, 73, 76, 93n, 99, 141
Sasanians, 29
Satow, Ernest, Guide to Diplomatic Practice, 42, 55, 94
Saudi Arabia, 182, 221
Sauma, Rabban, 29
Saville Inquiry, 169, 175
Sawers, John, 126–7
Schmidt, Eric, 108, 222
Schuster, Wolfgang, 223
Scotland, 82, 220
Second World War, 63, 67, 69, 95, 133–4
Secret Office, 119
Seldon, Anthony, 266
self-determination, 134
self-employment, 227
Selimi, Petrit, 82
semaphore, 47
Shakespeare, William, 144
Sharro, Karl, 193
Shen Weiqin, 1–3, 27
‘sherpas’, 1, 176
Short, Clare, 171
Shultz, George, 89
Sieghart, William, 173
Sierra Leone, 254
slave trade, abolition of, 53
Sleiman, Michel, 189
Smalley, Richard, 109
smartphones, and security risk, 160
Snowden, Edward, 120, 122–4, 127
Sochi Winter Games, 194
social media, 80–4, 114, 151, 208, 214, 230–6, 264, 268
and Arab Spring, 230–2
and diplomacy, 8–10, 158–60, 163, 235–6
and Lebanon, 194–205
Socrates, 267
soft power, 136–48
South Africa, 173
Spears, Edward, 8, 143, 190
Sri Lanka, 218
Stalin, Josef, 53, 77, 99–100, 133–4, 215
Stengel, Richard, 98
Sterling, Bruce, 120
Stoddart, Charles, 56
Storrs, Sir Ronald, 180
Straw, Jack, 135
summits, 72–7
Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 28, 119
Sunday Times, 196
Sykes, Mark, 142, 193
Syria, 16, 19, 77, 133, 157, 194, 214, 218–20, 231–5, 253–4, 256, 278
impact of crisis on Lebanon, 163, 201, 204–5
Tahmasp, Shah of Persia, 34
Tahrir Square protests, 230–1
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 21, 52–4, 72, 84, 95, 153
Tan, Tony, 223
Target store, 112
Tehran, 38, 57
telegrams, 10, 57, 65, 78–9, 111, 155, 157–8, 185, 275
telegraph, invention of, 47
television, 60, 69
Teller, Matthew, 194
Ten Commandments, 27
Thailand, 218
Thatcher, Margaret, 88, 178
Thermopylae, battle of, 118
Thirty Years War, 41
Transjordan, 61
Treasury, 16–17
Treaty of Münste
r, 119
Treaty of Ryswick, 119
Treaty of the Pyrenees, 119
Treaty of Westphalia, 39, 41–2, 72, 85, 96, 220
Triploi (Lebanon), 234
Truman, Harry S., 271
Tunisia, 229
Turkey, 129, 165, 218, 230
Twain, Mark, 143
Twitter, 7, 8, 9, 10, 79, 80–1, 83, 84, 110, 111, 113, 127, 129, 141, 151, 185, 194, 201, 203, 229, 230, 231, 235, 236, 263, 272, 278, 279
Uganda, 165
UK/Lebanon Tech Hub, 194
UKIP, 252
United Nations
creation of, 63–4, 134, 259
in decline, 219–20
UN General Assembly, 75–6
UN Security Council, 19, 54, 63, 81, 192, 220, 235, 255–6, 261
United States
declining influence, 216–19, 221
defence spending, 218
exceptionalism, 136
foreign policy aims, 58, 61–4, 141, 244, 252–3, 255–6
origins of foreign service, 43–4
rise of Tea Party, 252
and soft power, 143
and UN Security Council, 255–6, 261
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 114
US National Intelligence Council, 240
US State Department, 43, 81
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 255, 258
Ure, Sir John, 174
Ushahidi app, 111
USS Maine, 58
van Rompuy, Herman, 175
Vatican, 133–4, 221
Venezuela, 230
Versailles Treaty, 60–1, 174
Victoria, Queen, 55
videoconferences, 65, 67
Vienna Convention, 64–5
Vietnam, lifting of embargo, 78
Vietnam War, 180
Wallenstein, Albrecht von, 96
Walsingham, Sir Francis, 119
Warburton, Anne, 68
Washington, George, 44–5
Waterloo, battle of, 28
Wehbe, Haifa, 137
Wellington, Duke of, 45–6
Wells, H. G., 245
West Wing, The, 89
Whatsapp, 121
Wheatstone, Charles, 47
White, Harry Dexter, 64
Wicquefort, Abraham de, 39–40, 119
WikiLeaks, 111, 120–2, 231
Wilhelm I, Emperor, 57
Willis, Frances, 67
Wilson, Woodrow, 61–2
Wodehouse, P. G., 90
Wolsey, Cardinal, 40
Wood, George, 44n
World Bank, 64, 219
World Economic Forum, 262
World Health Organisation, 240
World Trade Organisation, 219, 223
Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), 223
Wotton, Sir Henry, 96
‘yaks’, 1, 176
Yalta Summit, 63, 77
Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, 20, 49–50, 88, 126, 155
Yousafzai, Malala, 162, 164
Zhao Gao, 2
Zheng He, Admiral, 30
Zhou Enlai, 216
Zimbabwe, 16, 41, 75
Zoellick, Bob, 214
Zuckerberg, Mark, 7
About the Author
Tom Fletcher was born in Kent, and studied at Harvey Grammar School and Oxford University, graduating with a First in Modern History. He is a Visiting Professor at New York University, an honorary fellow at Oxford University, and a campaigner on global education and the UK’s creative industries. He was Britain’s Ambassador to Lebanon from 2011 to 2015, and was awarded the Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 2011 for services to the prime minister. He is married to Dr Louise Fletcher and they have two sons, Charlie and Theo.
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