Safirka: An American Envoy - Bridges, Peter
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Peter S. Bridges's service as American ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foreign Service. Safirka, a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offers pointed assessments of American foreign policy and policymakers. Bridges recounts his service in Panama during a time of turmoil over the Canal; in Moscow during the Cuban missile crisis; in Prague for bleak years after the Soviet invasion; in Rome when Italian terrorists first began to target Americans; and in key positions in three Washington agencies. In Somalia Bridges…mehr

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Peter S. Bridges's service as American ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foreign Service. Safirka, a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offers pointed assessments of American foreign policy and policymakers. Bridges recounts his service in Panama during a time of turmoil over the Canal; in Moscow during the Cuban missile crisis; in Prague for bleak years after the Soviet invasion; in Rome when Italian terrorists first began to target Americans; and in key positions in three Washington agencies. In Somalia Bridges managed the largest American aid program in sub-Sahara Africa. He dealt with a postcolonial regime hobbled both by traditional clan rivalries and by a leader who cared far less about Somalia's people and progress than about maintaining his control over that poverty-stricken, strategic nation -- which soon erupted in civil war.
Autorenporträt
Peter Bridges holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Columbia University. He is the author of Safirka: An American Envoy (The Kent State University Press, 2000) and has published more than three dozen articles, reviews, and stories in a variety of publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, and The Virginia Quarterly Review