Foreign Service

Five Decades on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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A behind the scenes look at 50 years of US diplomacy.From Vietnam in the 1960s to Afghanistan in this decade, James Dobbins was on the frontlines of American diplomacy and worked to advance U.S. national interests in some of the world’s most difficult and troubled arenas.In Foreign Service, Dobbins takes the reader behind the scenes at the Vietnam peace talks, the darkest days of the Cold War, the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the U.S. military interventions in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo, and Somalia. He provides a thoughtful insider’s account of all these ventures, analyzes the sources of both success and failure, and provides incisive portraits of many of the chief actors.Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama turned repeatedly to Dobbins as a diplomatic trouble-shooter with the right instincts and experience to help find solutions for seemingly irresolvable problems. Foreign Service vividly captures why they did.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-06
Mått:161 x 231 x 28 mm
Vikt:739 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:356
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:Zoellick,Robert
ISBN:9780815730040

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James Dobbins served as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Special Assistant to the President for the Western Hemisphere, Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State for the Balkans, Ambassador to the European Community, and special envoy for Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, and Afghanistan. He holds the Distinguished Chair for Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation.

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Dobbins’s inside stories of policy debates over Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan are insightful and illuminating. And he is admirably candid in describing some of his own crisis-management advice..."- Survival, 60.6 (2018)

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:Foreword, Robert B. ZoellickPreface1. Pacific Youth2. Apprenticeship3. The Seventh Floor4. Provincial Interlude5. On Turtle Bay6. Upstairs7. Downstairs8. Postgraduate Studies9. Missile Diplomacy10. A Small Town in Germany11. A World Reordered12. And Disordered Anew13. From Community to Union14. Black Hawk Down15. Entering Haiti16. Exiting Haiti17. A Lesson in Divided Government18. Hemispheric Interlude19. War in Kosovo20. Peace in Kosovo21. The Fall of Milosevic22. Mending Transatlantic Relations23, A New Administration24. Another War, Another Assignment25. Losing the Peace: Afghanistan26. Losing the Peace: Iraq27. Afghanistan Again28. ReflectionsIndex

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