Foreign service : five decades on the front lines of American diplomacy /: five decades on the front lines of American diplomacy. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James F. Dobbins.
• Authors: Dobbins, James, 1942-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Santa Monica, California Washington, D.C : The Rand Corporation Brookings Institution Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages)
• Subjects: 327.2092 B; Diplomats -- United States -- Biography; Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography; Diplomatic and consular service -- United States; Diplomacy -- History -- 20th century; Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography; Diplomatic and consular service, American -- History; Diplomates -- États-Unis -- Biographies; Ambassadeurs -- États-Unis -- Biographies; Service diplomatique et consulaire -- États-Unis; Diplomatie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle; Diplomatic relations; Ambassadors; Diplomacy; Diplomatic and consular service; Diplomats; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-; États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- 1945-1989; États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- 1989-; United States; Biographies; History; Biographies; Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780815730200; 0815730209
• Related ISBNs: 9780815730040; 0815730047
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2017).
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