[PDF] Improbable Diplomats eBook

Author : Pete Millwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108837433

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A unique account of how Chinese and American athletes, scientists, and artists rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s.

Author : Christopher R. Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451685912

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An “inside the room” memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in a career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, this is the real life of an American diplomat. Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He takes us from one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic, to Bosnia and Kosovo, to the Dayton conference, where a truce was brokered. Hill draws upon lessons learned as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon early on in his career and details his prodigious experience as a US ambassador. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, where he also served in the depth of the cold war; Ambassador to South Korea and chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton’s hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq. Hill’s account is an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents and vice presidents (Clinton, Bush and Cheney, and Obama), of Secretaries of State (Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton), of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America’s aggressive interventions and wars of choice.

Author : James William Spain
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873386067

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An autobiography of a 20th-century American diplomat who spent most of his life in high-level diplomacy in Asia and Africa. His Foreign Service career brought postings in Islamabad, Istanbul, and Ankara, and four ambassadorships - in Tanzania, Turkey, the UN, and Sri Lanka

Author : Ted Osius
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 197882517X

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Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives. Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation’s extraordinary renaissance. With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.

Author : Holger Afflerbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0857453106

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The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of "inevitability."

Author : David Motadel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1107198402

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The first truly global history of revolutions and revolutionary waves in the modern age, from Atlantic Revolutions to Arab Spring.

Author : Elizabeth O'Brien Ingleson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674251830

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Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s US activists and entrepreneurs who pressed for access to China's vast labor market, Ingleson shows how not just Chinese reform but also US deindustrialization fueled a dramatic, unanticipated shift in global capitalism.