War on peace : the end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence
Record details
- ISBN: 0393652106
- ISBN: 9780393652109
- ISBN: 0393652106 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780393652109 : HRD
- ISBN: 0393652106
- ISBN: 9780393652109
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Physical Description:
xxxiii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-375) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: mahogany row massacre -- The last diplomats -- American myths -- Lady taliban -- Dick -- The mango case -- The other haqqani network -- Duplicity -- The frat house -- Mission: impossible -- Walking on glass -- Farmer holbrooke -- A little less conversation -- A- rod -- Promise me you'll end the war -- The wheels come off the bus -- The memo -- The real thing -- Shoot first -- Ask questions never -- General rule -- Dostum, he is telling the truth -- And discouraging all lies -- White beast -- The shortest spring -- Midnight at the ranch -- Present at the destruction -- The state of the secretary -- The mosquito and the sword -- Meltdown -- Epilogue: the tool of first resort -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
Summary, etc.: | The journalist and former U.S. State Department official explores the decline of American diplomacy and traditional statecraft, the abdication of global leadership, and how the work of peacemaking has been taken over by the military-industrial complex. |
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Subject: | United States. Department of State. United States Foreign relations 21st century United States Foreign relations administration Diplomacy |
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Morris Public Library | 327.73 FAR (Text) | 33460137384431 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |