{"product_id":"war-on-peace-the-end-of-diplomacy-and-the-decline-of-american-influence","title":"War on Peace : The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence","description":"US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America's deals and protect democratic interests around the world are walking out in droves.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. Increasingly, America is a nation that shoots first and asks questions later. In an astonishing journey from the corridors of power in Washington, DC, to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth - Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Korea among them acclaimed investigative journalist Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most consequential and poorly understood changes in American history.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e His first-hand experience as a former State Department official 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. Drawing on newly unearthed documents, and richly informed by rare interviews with warlords, whistle-blowers, and policymakers - including every living secretary of state from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson - War on Peace makes a powerful case for an endangered profession. Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political cowardice, short-sightedness, and outright malice - but it may just offer a way out of a world at war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Published: UK, 2018\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Pages: 432\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Language: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 13: 9780007575626\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 10: 0007575629\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ronan Farrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43836091040010,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9780007575626.jpg?v=1668600003","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/war-on-peace-the-end-of-diplomacy-and-the-decline-of-american-influence","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}