five decades on the frontlines of American diplomacy Dobbins, James 1942- creator text cau Santa Monica, California Rand Corporation ; Washington, D.C. : Brooking Institutions Press [2017] 2017 monographic eng

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329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm 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 James Dobbins Includes index. 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 002 E 840.8 D632f 2017 923.273 9780815730040 (hardcover : alk. paper) 2017010238 170906 20230404125825.0 126637