Damir Grubiša: Diplomacija iza kulisa

On Thursday, October 15, at 6 p.m., the Rijeka City Library will host a presentation of Damir Grubiša's book titled Behind the Scenes Diplomacy - A Comparative Analysis of a Profession. Vuk Perišić, Zdravko Zima and Seid Serdarević also participate in the presentation, along with the author. Damir Grubiša's book Diplomacy Behind the Scenes - A Comparative Analysis of a Profession is the work of a former diplomat and retired professor at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb and the American University in Rome. In this book, Grubiša combined rich experience, thorough knowledge of matter, but also rare erudition. Behind-the-scenes diplomacy can be read as a textbook, which deserves to be included in the mandatory literature of political science and diplomatic studies, but also as an entertaining collection of anecdotes written in measured, cheerful irony. Grubiša speaks in Behind the Scenes Diplomacy about the history of that civil service, about great diplomats – from Talleyrand and Metternich to Henry Kissinger and Budimir Lončar – and tragicomic amateurs and cheaters, of course about spies, about abuses of diplomatic immunity, about petty and great cunning, about bizarre honorary consuls, about wine and food, which are not only an indispensable decoration of diplomatic receptions but also a valuable bargaining chip, especially in preventing the greatest misfortune – installments of the price He also refers to the depictions of diplomacy in beautiful literature, but…