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SUMMARY:Naked Diplomacy: Power and statecraft in the digital age: book lau
 nch and presentation by Tom Fletcher\, CMG  - Tom Fletcher\, CMG and forme
 r British Ambassador to Lebanon
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CONTACT:Dr Adam Coutts
DESCRIPTION:Tom Fletcher CMG and former British Ambassador to Lebanon talk
 s to Professor David Runciman (Head of Department of Politics and Internat
 ional Studies) about his new book - Naked Diplomacy.\n\nDrinks reception a
 fterwards.\n\nOverview\nWho will be in power in the 21st century?\n\nGover
 nments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future?
 \n\nIn the next 100 years\, the world will need to deal with the same amou
 nt of social development witnessed in the last 43 centuries – from the r
 ebirth of the city state\, the battle for new energy\, disappearing border
 s\, the desire of the world’s people to move to developed nations.\n\nTo
 m Fletcher\, a former British ambassador – and the youngest appointed fo
 r 200 years – explores the core principles of a progressive 21st century
  foreign policy: how to balance interventionism and national interest\, us
 e global governance to achieve national objectives and set out an agenda f
 or representative international systems. Alongside wisdom from history’s
  most influential global leaders and diplomats – Talleyrand\, Kissinger\
 , Mandela and the Kennedys included – he analyses the rise of smart powe
 r\, soft power and the new interventionism.\n\nOffering real-world example
 s of how diplomacy continues to have a significant impact on people's live
 s\, and why it will continue to do so\, Fletcher asks leaders: Who do you 
 represent? And how can you do it better?\n\nNaked Diplomacy provides the a
 nswers for our digital age.\n\nBIO -\nTom Fletcher CMG was British Ambassa
 dor to Lebanon\, 2011-15\, and the Downing Street foreign policy adviser t
 o three Prime Ministers. He is an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University and
  Visiting Professor of International Relations at New York University. He 
 blogs as the Naked Diplomat.  He is currently leading a report on the futu
 re of the United Nations for the next UN Secretary General.\n\nTom has als
 o recently published a review on the future of the Foreign and Commonwealt
 h Office: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_
 data/file/521916/Future_FCO_Report.pdf\n\nTwitter: @TFletcher\n\nhttps://w
 ww.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008127572/naked-diplomacy\nhttp://tomfletcher.g
 lobal/\n\n
LOCATION:English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07
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