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Hello, today is a special episode where I interviewer Stuart E. Eisensted, an American diplomat and attorney.

Mr. Eisenstadt worked on Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. After winning said campaign,

he became President Jimmy Carter's chief domestic policy advisor. Later, he went on to become President Bill Clinton's Deputy Secretary of the

Treasury, and he served as the United States ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to

96. Mr. Eisenstadt has also devoted much effort to the various aspects of Holocaust restitution,

successfully negotiating major agreements with the Swiss, Germans, Austrian and French,

and other European countries.

He has recently written a book called The Art of Diplomacy,

in which of accounts our American negotiators reached historic agreements that changed the world.

This podcast covers

military history but also explores the build-up to conflicts which include attempts to resolve

differences with diplomacy before resorting to arms. Diplomatic skills was crucial for how

conflicts conclude. Mr. Eisensted, welcome to the show. It's great to have you on.

Earl, thank you so much. I appreciate it very much. A pleasure. Could you tell me first why

you've decided to choose the topic of diplomacy to write about? Yes, I decided to write the book for

two reasons. One, we live in a world of conflict that somehow seems

almost incapable of peaceful resolution. And I wanted to focus, as I do in the book, on

12 instances in which seemingly impossible conflicts were resolved through diplomacy, that is through negotiation by

sovereign countries and negotiators, including, by the way, and relevant to those in the UK,

the Good Friday Agreement with Northern Ireland. I interviewed over 150 people who were involved

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