In an impatient and reconfiguring world, diplomacy reveals its best face: the exercise of dialogue, reason, and negotiation as pathways to resolve conflicts and build the future. This book brings together the
reflec­tions and experiences of Shlomo Ben Ami, Vesna Pusié, Cecilia Malmstrom, Jordi Xucla, Miodrag Vlahovié and Tinatin Khidasheli, figures who have negotiated, shaped and lived power through their diplomatic, ministerial, parliamentary and academic responsibilities.

From their own trajectories, the authors explore inter­national action on the ground, where political decisions meet human and geopolitical complexity.

Shlomo Ben Ami bears witness to his study of interna­tional relations and the practice of diplomacy, also analy­sing the Middle East conflict. Vesna Pusié proposes a new project of democracy, revisiting the peace finally achie­ved in the Balkans and Croatia's entry into the European project. Cecilia Malmstrom examines the expansion and readjustment of the liberal democratic project in an in­terdependent world. Jordi Xucla observes the Balkans and the South Caucasus as new laboratories of Euro pean integration and stability. Miodrag Vlahovié recounts the patient construction of Montenegro's independence and international recognition. Tinatin Khidasheli presents Georgia's European vocation as a rational and strategic choice.

These pages combine memory and strategy, moral com­mitment and political realism. Geopolitics and Diploma­cy on the Ground is not merely a treatise on internatio­nal relations; it is an invitation to think about the future through experience, with the serenity of those who have learned that peace is not imposed but built.