The international community faces no more critical issue than how to protect people caught in new and large-scale humanitarian crises - humanitarian intervention has been controversial both when it has happened, as in Kosovo, and when it has failed to happen, as in Rwanda. While there is general agreement internationally that we should not stand by in the face of massive violations of human rig…
Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious persecution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But according to this former Iranian leader - forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs the revolution's original goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play …
When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiotor in late 1995, he book a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.
In this collection of statements, interviews and personal profiles of Dr. Chien, much of it translated from the original Chinese, the reader will have a comprehensive view of the R.O.C.'s latest diplomatic moves and a portent of its future international role. So, too, this work presents authentic insights into the character and persona of Fredrick Chien, the person as well as the statesman of v…
This book tells the history of America's experience in the Middle East over the past sixty years. This book contains the stories of ten presidents and their administrations and their ways of dealing with the region, their leaders, and their ideas for solving these problems.
The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions an significant diplomatic activity of the United States Government.
Ten Episodes in China diplomacy by Qian Qichen, in which he describes his experiences as a diplomat, is the most detailed, informative, insightful account of recent Chinese foreign policy by any Chinese official or scholar. Full content: Normalization of Sino-Soviet relations The Paris Conference on Cambodia Flying to Baghdad "Funeral diplomacy" in Tokyo The road to Seoul Withstanding …
As a career diplomat and trusted confidant of prime ministers and foreign ministers from both sides of the Labor-Liberal divide, Woolcort nor only witnessed first hand some of the pivotal moments of the twentieth century but actively played a crucial part in them; events such as the creation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), the decolonisation process in South East Asia, an…
This book, is an extraordinary accomplishment . It contains first-hand recollections by people at No.1, Wisma Putra - the present-day address of the new Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the new administrative capital, Putrajaya