About this event

Featured speaker

  • Peter Westmacott, Former British Ambassador to the U.S., France and Turkey

In conversation with

  • Karen Donfried, President, The German Marshall Fund of the U.S.

Peter Westmacott’s forty-year career as a British diplomat straddled the last decade of the Cold War and the age of globalization with prestigious postings in Ankara, Paris, and Washington, DC. His new book, They Call It Diplomacy: Forty Years of Representing Britain Abroad, offers a first-hand account of the workings of diplomats along with striking portraits of the political figures during a period of great change in the world order. Join this BOOKS@GMF online event as we discuss the state of the U.S.-U.K. special relationship, the trajectory of a post-Brexit Britain, and the relevance of diplomacy today. 

You can support independent book sellers in the U.S. by purchasing a copy of They Call it Diplomacy: Forty Years of Representing Britain Abroad at bookshop.org.

If you have any questions, please contact Laura-Hope Gammell at [email protected].