Gordon A. Craig

Elected leaders professing ideas of right and wrong have replaced the career diplomats who had maintained the balance of power. But The Diplomats, edited by Gordon A. Craig and Francis L. Loewenheim, does not say whether their relative success in the Cold War years can continue.

In November 1782, during the peace negotiations with Great Britain, John Adams talked with one of the British commissioners about the future relationship of the American republic with the European political system. In his diary he reproduced the exchange.