Contacts with the Opposition: A Symposium

...a brilliantly conceived symposium. * The Washington Post * ...a well-selected collection of situational examples and comments by 19 distinguished diplomats, professors and journalists on the perennial diplomatic problem of how 'to keep in with the outs.' This is a question that arose in a particularly criticalform in Iran, and among the contributors are three former American ambassadors to that country, none of whom quite agrees with the other, which is a measure of the difficulties involved. * Foreign Service Journal * ...a well-selected collection of situational examples and comments by 19 distinguished diplomats, professors and journalists on the perennial diplomatic problem of how 'to keep in with the outs.' This is a question that arose in a particularly critical form in Iran, and among the contributors are three former American ambassadors to that country, none of whom quite agrees with the other, which is a measure of the difficulties involved. * Foreign Service Journal * ...a brilliantly conceived symposium. * The Washington Post *

This reprinted edition is co-published with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.