02035cam a2200373 i 4500 126637 20230404125825.0 170906s2017 caua 000 0 eng d 2017010238 9780815730040 (hardcover : alk. paper) eng 002 E 840.8 D632f 2017 923.273 Dobbins, James, 1942- 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 Includes index. 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 Dobbins, James, 1942- United States. Foreign Service Biography. Diplomats United States Biography. Ambassadors United States Biography. Diplomatic and consular service United States. Diplomacy History 20th century. United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 United States Foreign relations 1989- Embajadores Estados Unidos Biografías Diplomáticos Estados Unidos Biografías Diplomacia Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Relaciones exteriores. lcc bk dpf 5384 5384 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-04 1 0 002 E 840.8 D632f 2017 00000119557 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk