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Author: Harold F. Peterson Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780873953467 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 486
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Called "one of the three most successful envoys to South America during the nation's first 150 years," Buchanan served under four presidents.
Author: Harold F. Peterson Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438416008 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 486
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Called “one of the three most successful envoys to South America during the nation’s first 150 years,” Buchanan served under four presidents.
Author: Wu Tingfang Publisher: Anthem Press ISBN: 1843312697 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 177
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A beguiling account of twentieth-century America through the eyes of an outsider, a remarkable inversion of the standard 'Westerner observing the exotic' travel writing formula. Wu Tingfang wrote this book at an intriguing juncture in history - aeroplanes and motion pictures had recently been invented, and while he did not know it, a tremendous cultural shift was about to take place in the West due to the First World War. His observations are enlightening and remain as relevant today as the era in which they were written.
Author: George W. Liebmann Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857730401 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
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Can John D. Negroponte be described as 'The Last American Diplomat'? In a career spanning 50 years of unprecedented American global power, he was the last of a dying breed of patrician diplomats - devoted to public service, a self-effacing and ultimate insider, whose prime duty was to advise, guide and warn - a bulwark of traditional diplomatic realism against ideologue excess. Negroponte served as US ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines and Iraq; he was US Permanent Representative to the UN, Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Secretary of State to George W. Bush. His was a high-flying and seemingly conventional career but one full of surprises. Negroponte opposed Kissinger in Vietnam, supported a 'proxy war' but opposed direct American military action against Marxists in Central America - facing bitter Congress opposition in the process. He swam against the floodtide of George W. Bush's neocon-dominated administration, warning against the Iraq war as a possible new 'Vietnam' and criticising aspects of Bush's 'War on Terror'. He disconcerted the administration by arguing that the re-establishment of Iraq would take as long as five years. And he was influential in international social and economic policy - working for the successful re-settlement of millions of refugees in Southeast Asia following the Vietnam War, issuing early warnings about the scourge of AIDS in Africa and successfully launching the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). George W. Liebmann's incisive account is based on personal and shared experience but it is no hagiography; beyond the author's discussions with Negroponte, this book is deeply researched in US state papers and includes interviews with leading actors. It will provide fascinating reading for anyone interested in the inside-story of American diplomacy, showing personal and policy struggles, and the underlying fissures present even in the world's last remaining superpower.
Author: Paul S. Reinsch Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 428
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An American Diplomat in China is a book by Paul Samuel Reinsch. It delves into the people and culture of China, while taking an honest look at its political systems and diplomatic ventures.
Author: John E. Findling Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 720
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An expanded and thoroughly updated new edition of the 1980 dictionary, this is the only reference available that presents concise, analytical articles on the main actors and events in American diplomatic history from the founding of the Republic to the present. It offers separate entries for nearly 600 individuals who have had a significant impact on U.S. foreign policy and for a like number of topics and developments connected with American diplomacy. In his introduction, John Findling discusses the broad range of source materials he has drawn on and examines the changing role of the career diplomat in the twentieth century. Biographical entries cover secretaries of state, ambassadors, and others who have influenced foreign policy, such as congressmen, correspondents and broadcasters, diplomatic historians, presidential advisers, and entrepreneurs. Topic entries range from major crises and international negotiations to the catchwords and slogans that have shaped and mobilized public opinion throughout the nation's history. Comments on the historical importance of the subject and selected, updated bibliographies are supplied.
Author: Paul Richter Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1501172433 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 352
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Veteran diplomatic correspondent Paul Richter goes behind the battles and the headlines to show how American ambassadors are the unconventional warriors in the Muslim world—running local government, directing drone strikes, building nations, and risking their lives on the front lines. The tale’s heroes are a small circle of top career diplomats who have been an unheralded but crucial line of national defense in the past two decades of wars in the greater Middle East. In The Ambassadors, Paul Richter shares the astonishing, true-life stories of four expeditionary diplomats who “do the hardest things in the hardest places.” The book describes how Ryan Crocker helped rebuild a shattered Afghan government after the fall of the Taliban and secretly negotiated with the shadowy Iranian mastermind General Qassim Suleimani to wage war in Afghanistan and choose new leaders for post-invasion Iraq. Robert Ford, assigned to be a one-man occupation government for an Iraqi province, struggled to restart a collapsed economy and to deal with spiraling sectarian violence—and was taken hostage by a militia. In Syria at the eruption of the civil war, he is chased by government thugs for defying the country’s ruler. J. Christopher Stevens is smuggled into Libya as US Envoy to the rebels during its bloody civil war, then returns as ambassador only to be killed during a terror attach in Benghazi. War-zone veteran Anne Patterson is sent to Pakistan, considered the world’s most dangerous country, to broker deals that prevent a government collapse and to help guide the secret war on jihadists. “An important and illuminating read” (The Washington Post) and the winner of the prestigious Douglas Dillon Book Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy, The Ambassadors is a candid examination of the career diplomatic corps, America’s first point of contact with the outside world, and a critical piece of modern-day history.
Author: George W. Liebmann Publisher: ISBN: 9780755624034 Category : Diplomats Languages : en Pages : 0
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Early years -- Hong Kong -- Vietnam -- Standford interlude -- Kissinger and the National Security Council -- Ecuador -- Thessaloniki -- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fisheries -- Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs -- Honduras -- Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environmental and Scientific Affairs -- Deputy National Security Advisor -- Mexico -- The Philippines -- Panama -- McGraw-Hill -- United Nations Iraq -- Director of National Intelligence -- Deputy Secretary of State -- Conclusion.
Author: William Joseph Burns Publisher: ISBN: 0525508864 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 522
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As a distinguished and admired American diplomat of the last half century, Burns has played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time: from the bloodless end of the Cold War and post-Cold War relations with Putin's Russia to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. Here he recounts some of the seminal moments of his career, drawing on newly declassified cables and memos to give readers a rare, inside look at American diplomacy in action, and of the people who worked with him. The result is an powerful reminder of the enduring importance of diplomacy. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Harold F. Peterson
Author: Harold F. Peterson
Author: Wu Tingfang
Author: George W. Liebmann
Author: Paul S. Reinsch
Author: John E. Findling
Author: Paul Richter
Author: Walter Burges Smith
Author: George W. Liebmann
Author: William Joseph Burns
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