Foreign Service

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.

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)

• 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