War on Peace

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American diplomacy is under siege Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers We re becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later.In an astonishing account ranging from Washington, D.C., to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Korea in the years since 9 11, acclaimed journalist and former diplomat Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most consequential and poorly understood changes in American history His firsthand experience in the State Department affords a personal look at some of the last standard bearers of traditional statecraft, including Richard Holbrooke, who made peace in Bosnia and died while trying to do so in Afghanistan Farrow s narrative is richly informed by interviews with whistleblowers, policymakers, and a warlord, from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political cowardice, short sightedness, and outright malice but it may just offer America a way out of a world at war. New Download [ War on Peace ] Author [ Ronan Farrow ] – kino-fada.fr Yes, it s true that with this book, Pulitzer Prize winner Ronan Farrow shines a light on how the US has been decimating and sidelining its State Department for years, although hey, kids diplomacy is crucial But while this is of course an important point to make, it also amounts to stating the obvious, so I would argue that what makes this book so insightful and relevant is how Farrow takes his readers inside the political, military and diplomatic entanglements of som...Who could have known Ronan Farrow would develop into such a remarkable thinker He credits his mother, of whom he speaks with genuine awe in his voice Not only has 30 year old Ronan Farrow been a diplomat, in his early twenties working closely with Richard Holbrooke, special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the midst of American s longest war, but just last year he broke the story p...Study of the sidelining of the U.S State Department by the military and intelligence communities Farrow is a bit of a renaissance man he was the investigative journalist who helped break the Harvey Weinstein abuse story, and former Special Advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke.Farrow has an incredible ability to get access he has somehow managed to interview every living secretary of state since Kissinger While he obviously cannot cover ever Study of the sidelining of the U.S State Department by the military and intelligence communities Farrow is a bit of a renaissance man he was the investigative journalist who helped break the Harvey Weinstein abuse story, a...3.5 4 StarsTo start with a very brief negative, I would say that the structure was a little hard to follow From what I could tell, Farrow structures the book mainly around the countries whose foreign relations he discusses I m sure this structure would be easier to follow while reading a physical copy of the book, but as an audiobook listen, it was occasionally disorienting when he jumped from Pakistan to Somalia.However, I think the positives far outweigh the negatives in this insanely well r 3.5 4 StarsTo start with a very brief negative, I would say that the structure was a little hard to follow From what I could tell, Farrow structures the book mainly around the countries whose foreign relations he discusses I m sure this structure would be easier to follo...Ronan on playing nice with North Korea we re flying blind now they often lie risk we get played they cheat Let s hope for the better on the 12th June.Et VoilAn excellent book of investigative journalism The ongoing deterioration of the State Department and rise of Militarism as foreign policy.Tillerson parroted China talking points written by Kushner Rachel Maddoow looks at past reporting on Jared Kushner s sketchy meetings with Chinese officials, and notes the tie in to a scoop in Ronan Farrow s new book War on Peace that found Kushner to b...Riveting book I couldn t put down War on Peace is a riveting and thought provoking book exploring the reasons behind the declining, though one hopes not dying, art and craft of US foreign diplomacy negotiation Ronan Farrow, former US State Department diplomat and current journalist, details how the use of diplomacy has diminished over the last several presidencies, at the hands of ever increasing military power that is now used by the US as a replacement to foreign diplomacy This trend starte Riveting book I couldn t put down War on Peace is a riveting and thought provoking book exploring the reasons behind the declining, though one hopes not dying, art and craft of US foreign diplomacy negotiation Ronan Farrow, fo...This is a deeply flawed but fascinating book about the decline of the US foreign service and US diplomacy and general, the the ebbing of US influence as the American Empire slowly ends.Farrow was an employee of the State Department at one point and perhaps he was too close to his subject The first 100 or so pages are essentially an apologia for his boss, Richard Holbrooke Holbrooke is no longer around to defend himself so Farrow seems to have taken it upon himself I don t think it necessarily This is a deeply flawed but fascinating book about the decline of the US foreign service and US diplomacy and general, the the ebbing of US influence as the American Empire slowly ends.Farrow was an employee of the State Department at one point and perhaps he was too close to his subject The first 100 or so pages are essentially an apologia for his boss, Richard Holbrooke Holbrooke is no longer around to defend himself so Farrow seems to have taken it up...The advent of the Trump presidency has wreaked havoc with the traditional American approach to foreign policy that has been in place roughly for the last seventy years Under the leadership of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson the Foreign Service has been gutted as have the careers of life long diplomats leaving the United States with a lack of qualified personnel to conduct the daily work of the State Department, an essential component for an effective foreign policy This is in large par The advent of the Trump presidency has wreaked havoc with the traditional American approach to foreign policy that has been in place roughly for the last seventy years Under the leadership of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson the Foreign Service has been gutted as have the careers of life long diplomats leaving the United States with a lack of qualified perso...

War on Peace
  • English
  • 14 January 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 392 pages
  • 0393652106
  • Ronan Farrow
  • War on Peace