- 336 pages
- English
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About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- One: Pacific Youth
- Two: Apprenticeship
- Three: The Seventh Floor
- Four: Provincial Interlude
- Five: On Turtle Bay
- Six: Upstairs
- Seven: Downstairs
- Eight: Postgraduate Studies
- Nine: Missile Diplomacy
- Ten: A Small Town in Germany
- Eleven: A World Reordered
- Twelve: And Disordered Anew
- Thirteen: From Community to Union
- Fourteen: Black Hawk Down
- Photographs
- Fifteen: Entering Haiti
- Sixteen: Exiting Haiti
- Seventeen: A Lesson in Divided Government
- Eighteen: Hemispheric Interlude
- Nineteen: War in Kosovo
- Twenty: Peace in Kosovo
- Twenty-One: The Fall of Milosevic
- Twenty-Two: Mending Transatlantic Relations
- Twenty-Three: A New Administration
- Twenty-Four: Another War, Another Assignment
- Twenty-Five: Losing the Peace: Afghanistan
- Twenty-Six: Losing the Peace: Iraq
- Twenty-Seven: Afghanistan Again
- Twenty-Eight: Reflections
- Index