TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dobbins,James
TI  - Foreign service: five decades on the frontlines of American diplomacy 
SN  - 9780815730040 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - 002 E 840.8 D632f 2017
U1  - 923.273 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Santa Monica, California
PB  - Rand Corporation ; Washington, D.C. : Brooking Institutions Press
KW  - Dobbins, James,
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign Service
KW  - Biography
KW  - Diplomats
KW  - Ambassadors
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service
KW  - Diplomacy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Embajadores
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Biografías
KW  - Diplomáticos
KW  - Diplomacia
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1945-1989
KW  - 1989-
N1  - 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
ER  -