Naked Diplomacy

Reviews

‘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 Expand reviews