Dobbins, James,  1942- <br/><br/>
Foreign service :  five decades on the frontlines of American diplomacy / 
James Dobbins 
 - Santa Monica, California :  Rand Corporation ; Washington, D.C. : Brooking Institutions Press,  [2017] 
 - 329 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword / Robert B. Zoellick -- Preface -- Pacific youth -- Apprenticeship -- The seventh floor -- Provincial interlude -- On Turtle Bay -- Upstairs -- Downstairs -- Postgraduate studies -- Missile defense -- 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780815730040 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017010238 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Dobbins, James, 1942- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Foreign Service --Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Diplomats--United States--Biography.<br/>Ambassadors--United States--Biography.<br/>Diplomatic and consular service--United States.<br/>Diplomacy--History--20th century.<br/>Embajadores--Estados Unidos--Biografías<br/>Diplomáticos--Estados Unidos--Biografías<br/>Diplomacia--Estados Unidos<br/>Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989<br/>United States--Foreign relations--1989-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>002 E 840.8  / D632f 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>923.273