The Last American Diplomat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last American Diplomat write by George W. Liebmann. This book was released on 2012-01-27. The Last American Diplomat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Last American Diplomat
The Last American Diplomat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last American Diplomat write by George W. Liebmann. This book was released on 2012. The Last American Diplomat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Back Channel
The Back Channel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Back Channel write by William Joseph Burns. This book was released on 2019. The Back Channel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ambassadors write by Paul Richter. This book was released on 2020-10-27. The Ambassadors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Last American Diplomat
The Last American Diplomat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last American Diplomat write by George W. Liebmann. This book was released on 2012. The Last American Diplomat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
