Foreign service : five decades on the front lines of American diplomacy / James F. Dobbins.

By:

Dobbins, James, 1942- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Zoellick, Robert [writer of foreword.]

Material type:

Computer filePublisher: Santa Monica, California : Washington, D.C. : The Rand Corporation ; Brookings Institution Press, [2017]Description: electronic text (xv, 329 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780815730200
0815730209

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Foreign service.DDC classification:

327.2092 23 DOB-F 2017 815021

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Contents:

Foreword / Robert B. Zoellick -- Preface -- Pacific youth -- Apprenticeship -- The seventh floor -- Provincial interlude -- On Turtle Bay -- Upstairs -- Downstairs -- Postgraduate studies -- Missile diplomacy -- A small town in Germany -- A world reordered -- And disordered anew -- From Community to Union -- Black Hawk down -- Entering Haiti -- Exiting Haiti -- A lesson in divided government -- Hemisphere's interlude -- War in Kosovo -- Peace in Kosovo -- The fall of Milosevic -- Mending transatlantic relations -- A new administration -- Another war, another assignment -- Losing the peace: Afghanistan -- Losing the peace: Iraq -- Afghanistan again -- Reflections.

Review: "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. This book vividly captures why they did."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Lahore Business School Library Book Cart	Book	327.2092 DOB-F 2017 815021 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Shift to CS/LAW Library Approved by Chainman		815021

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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. This book vividly captures why they did."

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