Marshall P. Adair

Lessons from a Diplomatic Life (eBook, PDF)

Watching Flowers from Horseback

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In his new book, Lessons from a Diplomatic Life: Watching Flowers from Horseback, retired State Department official and career diplomat Marshall P. Adair recounts and reflects on his time in the US Foreign Service. The story of his assignments throughout the world reveals important details about significant foreign policy issues and historic events, including Bosnia, American policy toward Tibet, the 1988 Burmese uprising, and the foundations of the current US-China relationship. It provides the reader with an inside look at the history of the US State Department, US diplomacy, and US foreign policy of recent decades, during what was often an unstable and uncertain time. This first-hand, detailed account of the author's work with foreign governments and populations provides a unique outlook on US relations around the world that has critical policy implications for the situations we face today. Through this retelling, Adair illuminates how the depth and accuracy needed of diplomats and Foreign Service agents requires a close and intimate understanding of the cultures and governments they work with.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216333678
• Artikelnr.: 74841884

Autorenporträt

Marshall P. Adair is an independent consultant on international relations, specializing in China and Europe. He retired as a Minister-Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service in September, 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1: First Assignment, Paris
Chapter 2: Edge of Darkness, Lubumbashi
Chapter 3: Introduction to China, Taipei
Chapter 4: The Last International City, Hong Kong
Chapter 5: The Middle Kingdom, Beijing
Chapter 6: Where 'the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder', Rangoon
Chapter 7: Flower Pepper and Buttered Tea, Sichuan
Chapter 8: Old War, Tuzla
Chapter 9: New War, Special Operations Command MacDill Air Force Base, FL
Chapter 10: Coda