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Juho Kusti Paasikivi Juho Kusti Paasikivi Finnish realist who faced Stalin at the 1939 Moscow negotiations and later forged the Paasikivi doctrine of Cold War neutrality Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions 1870–1956
James F. Francis Byrnes James F. Byrnes Roosevelt's "assistant president" who, as Secretary of State, designed the Potsdam reparations compromise Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1882–1972
Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš The last democratic president, who tried to topple a government with resignations and instead handed it to Gottwald Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1884–1948
Jan Garrigue Masaryk Jan Garrigue Masaryk The non-Communist foreign minister who lent Gottwald's government legitimacy, found dead under Černín Palace window two weeks after the coup Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1886–1948
Ferenc Münnich Münnich Ferenc Hungarian communist who backed Soviet intervention with Kádár in 1956 and became prime minister after the revolution was crushed Government and administration · Hungary 1886–1967
John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles An American diplomat who drove the Cold War through alliance-building Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1888–1959
Edward Stettinius Edward Stettinius A corporate executive turned architect of the postwar international order Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1900–1949
Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952 Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1902–1952
Llewellyn E. Thompson Llewellyn Thompson The US Ambassador to Moscow who knew Khrushchev personally and, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, told Kennedy to ignore the second letter Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1904–1972
Charles E. Eustis Bohlen Charles E. Bohlen The State Department Soviet expert who turned Kennan's and Clayton's policy memos into Marshall's Harvard speech Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1904–1974
Anton Ackermann Anton Ackermann German communist who drafted the KPD’s 1945 appeal and argued for a “special German road to socialism” Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1905–1973
Eugenio Reale Eugenio Reale Italian delegate at the Cominform founding who witnessed Stalin's telephone line, later turning from communist to anti-communist critic Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions 1905–1986
Hoàng Văn Hoan Hoàng Văn Hoan Pro-Chinese veteran, North Vietnam’s first ambassador to China, who defected to China after the 1979 war Diplomacy and international organization · Vietnam 1905–1991
Ernest Gross Ernest A. Gross An international lawyer who worked the UN’s procedures Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1906–1999
Jean Sainteny Jean Sainteny French resistance veteran and official who concluded the 6 March 1946 preliminary agreement with Ho Chi Minh Diplomacy and international organization · France state institutions 1907–1978
Vladimir Velebit Vladimir Velebit Yugoslav partisan-diplomat whom Stalin named a British spy to break off correspondence Diplomacy and international organization · Yugoslavia 1907–2004
Adam Rapacki Adam Rapacki A diplomat who widened room for negotiation amid East-West tension Diplomacy and international organization · Poland 1909–1970
U Thant ဦးသန့် The quiet diplomat who mediated a superpower nuclear standoff Diplomacy and international organization · United Nations 1909–1974
Dean Rusk Dean Rusk A Cold War diplomat who built containment through international coalitions Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1909–1994
George Ball George Ball The Under Secretary who stopped an airstrike on Cuba with the Pearl Harbor analogy, then alone opposed escalation in Vietnam Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1909–1994
Lê Đức Thọ Lê Đức Thọ Vietnamese Politburo member who negotiated the Paris Peace Accords with Kissinger and declined the Nobel Peace Prize Diplomacy and international organization · Vietnam 1911–1990
Jiří Hájek Jiří Hájek A diplomat who turned international law into a language of civic rights Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1913–1993
Gerard Smith Gerard C. Smith A negotiator of the nuclear age Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1914–1994
Thomas Brimelow Thomas Brimelow A practical architect of nuclear diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions 1915–1995
Walter Stoessel Walter Stoessel A career diplomat who worked the front lines of détente Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1920–1986
George Pratt Shultz George Shultz The Secretary of State who pushed Reagan toward dialogue with Gorbachev and helped end the Cold War Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1920–2021
Henry Alfred Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger The architect of détente who used 'linkage' to build the first framework for superpower arms control, the face of American realism Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1923–2023
Nguyễn Thị Bình Nguyễn Thị Bình PRG foreign minister, the only woman to sign the Paris Peace Accords, and later vice president of Vietnam Diplomacy and international organization · Vietnam 1927–
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński Carter's National Security Advisor who drew the Soviet Union into the Afghan trap Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1928–2017
Jack Foust Matlock Jack Matlock Reagan's NSC Soviet expert who assembled the 'Soviet 101' briefing papers and the last US ambassador to the USSR Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1929–
James Baker James Baker The pragmatic diplomat who engineered the Cold War's final transition Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1930–
Gyula Horn Horn Gyula Hungarian foreign minister who cut the Iron Curtain, and reform prime minister Diplomacy and international organization · Hungary 1932–2013
Rodric Quentin Braithwaite Rodric Braithwaite From ambassador to Moscow during perestroika to author of Afgantsy, the British diplomat who knew Russia from the inside Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions 1932–
Alois Mock Alois Mock An Austrian Europeanist who helped open the Iron Curtain Diplomacy and international organization · Austria state institutions 1934–2017
Diego Zegers Cordovez Diego Zegers Cordovez The Ecuadorian UN envoy who shuttled through six years of Geneva talks to frame the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Diplomacy and international organization · United Nations 1935–2014
Géza Jeszenszky Jeszenszky Géza A historian who carried the memory of 1956 into diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Hungary 1941–
Paulo Jorge Paulo Teixeira Jorge MPLA diplomat and Angola's second foreign minister, a leading figure of the party's left wing Diplomacy and international organization · Angola 1934/1929–2010