What It’s Like to Be…a Diplomat

Defusing a crisis after an ambassador hinted at a preemptive strike on Russia, delivering demarches in multiple languages, and surviving the frantic evacuation of the Kabul embassy with John Johnson, a retired diplomat who spent more than twenty years in the US Foreign Service. Do diplomats still send “cables” in the 21st century? And what does “not/not” mean? About What It’s Like to Be… In each episode of What It’s Like to Be…, bestselling author Dan Heath speaks with someone about what it’s...