A good story from the TNR archive by Peter Beinart argues that there are two kinds of Nobel Peace Prize winners — the diplomats and the dissidents. Among the former are the men who pushed disarmament in the 1920s and 1930s, the men who negotiated the peace in Vietnam in the 1970s and the peace in the Middle East in the 1990s. Needless to say these diplomatic victories have not withstood the test of time. In the other camp are the implacable foes of tyranny and injustice like Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Lech Walesa, and Aung Sun Suu Kyi. Beinart explained:
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