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At 41, Angie Brooks is a 15-year veteran of U.N. diplomacy, a skillful lawyer and Liberia's Assistant Secretary of State. In 1958, when both the President and Secretary of State were out of the country, she even filled in briefly as her nation's chief executive...
It was the worst of times: the first half of the 17th century. Spain rotted. The German principalities writhed. Sweden, France, Spain and even Switzerland were seething with religious mania. The European peasantry was regularly picked over by tax collectors and aimless bands of soldiers detached from all allegiance. Trade...
Yet such a force was being created, and on the Continent its principal inventor was the despised and sickly rationalist, Cardinal Richelieu. What Richelieu devised at home was the modern European state. France was his working model, and as its most powerful Minister of government, he developed a strong, centralized...
L'Eminence Grise. It is hardly possible to overstate the treacherous confusion that Richelieu's Europe presented to any would-be diplomat. The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) turned much of the Continent into a wasteland. Alliances flickered on and off like fireflies. Richelieu did his work...
EUROPE: Wish you had gained a little couth by wandering around the Continent all summer? See Page 21.