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What if your job was preventing wars no one will ever know about?

Somewhere in the world right now, it is the middle of the night, and a diplomat is on a quiet phone call nobody will read about tomorrow — preventing something that will never happen. That is most of the job. Diplomats work in the hopeful space between countries — listening, negotiating, and quietly building the agreements that hold the world together. Most of their work never makes the news. Some of it changes everything. This is the story of how international relations actually happen, told through the extraordinary tales of the people who made them possible.

So You Want To Be A Diplomat is a beautifully illustrated guide for curious kids ages 10 to 14 who want to understand how the world really works beyond their own borders. It reads like the best nonfiction adventures for young explorers — surprising, vivid, and impossible to put down.

Inside, you will walk through a real day in the life of a working diplomat, from the 6:30 AM cable traffic to the 10 PM encrypted call back to the capital. You will step inside embassies, foreign ministries, and the quiet hotel-lobby corners where history is actually decided. You will meet four extraordinary diplomats who shaped international relations forever — Eleanor Roosevelt, who chaired the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through three years of disagreement and was told as a young woman that she was too plain, too anxious, too earnest, and kept working anyway; Ralph Bunche, raised by a grandmother born into slavery and the first Black person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; Dag Hammarskjöld, the only person to receive the Peace Prize after his death; and Kofi Annan, who rose from junior staff to Secretary-General of the United Nations over forty patient years. Four lives that show exactly why their courage still matters today.