Surrender Is Not an Option

Defending America at the United Nations

John Bolton

• Publisher: Threshold Editions
• Year: 2007
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781416575573
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

With no-holds-barred candor, Donald Trump's new National Security Adviser and former ambassador to the United Nations takes us behind the scenes at the UN and the US State Department and reveals why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the UN resulted in controversy. He also shows how the US can lead the way to a more realistic global security arrangement for the twenty-first century and identifies the next generation of threats to America.

In this revealing memoir, John Bolton recounts his appointment in 2005 as Ambassador to the United Nations, his headline-making Senate confirmation battle, and his sixteen-month tenure at the United Nations. Bolton offers keen insight into such international crises as North Korea's nuclear test, Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, the genocide in Darfur, the negotiation that produced the controversial end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, and more. Chronicling both his successes and frustrations in taking a hard line against weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferators, terrorists, and rogue states such as North Korea and Iran, he also exposes the operational inadequacies that hinder the UN's effectiveness in international diplomacy and its bias against Israel and the United States. At home, he criticizes the bureaucratic inertia in the US State Department that can undermine presidential policy.

This fascinating chronicle of the career of one of America's outstanding statesmen who has fought to preserve American sovereignty and strength at home and abroad now contains a new afterword, "Challenges for the Next President."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Colophon
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• CHAPTER ONE Early Days
• CHAPTER TWO The Reagan Revolution and the Bush 41 Thermidor
• CHAPTER THREE Cutting Gulliver Loose: Protecting American Sovereignty in Good Deals and Bad
• CHAPTER FOUR Following the Yellow Cake Road on North Korea
• CHAPTER FIVE Leaving the Driving to the EU: Negotiations Über Alles with Iran
• CHAPTER SIX Why Do I Want This Job?
• CHAPTER SEVEN Arriving at the UN: Fear and Loathing in New York
• CHAPTER EIGHT Sisyphus in the Twilight Zone: Fixing the Broken Institution, or Trying To
• CHAPTER NINE As Good as It Gets: The Security Council
• CHAPTER TEN Electing the New Secretary General: Ban Ki-moon Is Coming to Town
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Security Council Successes on North Korea
• CHAPTER TWELVE Iran in the Security Council: The EU-3 Find New Ways to Give In
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Darfur and the Weakness of UN Peacekeeping in Africa
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Israel and Lebanon: Surrender as a Matter of High Principle at the UN
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN Recessional
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN Free at Last: Back to the Firing Line
• PHOTO CREDITS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT