Join us for our virtual FL JCC Author Series with Stuart Eizenstat, The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World

In one read­able vol­ume, diplo­mat and nego­tia­tor Stu­art E. Eizen­stat cov­ers every major con­tem­po­rary inter­na­tion­al agree­ment, from the treaty to end the Viet­nam War to the Kyoto Pro­to­cols and the Iran­ian Nuclear Accord. Writ­ten from the per­spec­tive that only a par­tic­i­pant in top-lev­el nego­ti­a­tions can bring, Eizen­stat recounts the events that led up to the nego­ti­a­tion, the dra­ma that took place around the table, and draws lessons from suc­cess­ful and unsuc­cess­ful strate­gies and tac­tics. Based on inter­views with over 60 key fig­ures in Amer­i­can diplo­ma­cy, includ­ing for­mer pres­i­dents and sec­re­taries of state, and major polit­i­cal fig­ures abroad.

Stu­art E. Eizen­stat has served as U.S. Ambas­sador to the Euro­pean Union and Deputy Sec­re­tary of both Trea­sury and State. He is also the author of Pres­i­dent Carter: The White House Years (2018), The Future of the Jews: How Glob­al Forces are Impact­ing the Jew­ish Peo­ple, Israel, and Its Rela­tion­ship with the Unit­ed States (2012), and Imper­fect Jus­tice: Loot­ed Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfin­ished Busi­ness of World War II (2003). He is an inter­na­tion­al lawyer in Wash­ing­ton, DC.