War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence. Ronan Farrow
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Название: War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

Автор: Ronan Farrow

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Политика, политология

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isbn: 9780007575640

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       Copyright

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       Dedication

       For Mom.

      Contents

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       COPYRIGHT

       DEDICATION

       PROLOGUE: MAHOGANY ROW MASSACRE

       PART I: THE LAST DIPLOMATS

      1 AMERICAN MYTHS

       12 A-ROD

       13 PROMISE ME YOU’LL END THE WAR

       14 THE WHEELS COME OFF THE BUS

       15 THE MEMO

       16 THE REAL THING

       PART II: SHOOT FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS NEVER

       17 GENERAL RULE

       18 DOSTUM: HE IS TELLING THE TRUTH AND DISCOURAGING ALL LIES

       19 WHITE BEAST

       20 THE SHORTEST SPRING

       21 MIDNIGHT AT THE RANCH

       PART III: PRESENT AT THE DESTRUCTION

       22 THE STATE OF THE SECRETARY

       23 THE MOSQUITO AND THE SWORD

       24 MELTDOWN

       EPILOGUE: THE TOOL OF FIRST RESORT

       PICTURE SECTION

       NOTES

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       PROLOGUE

       MAHOGANY ROW MASSACRE

       AMMAN, JORDAN, 2017

      [A]ppoint an ambassador who is versed in all sciences, who understands hints, expressions of the face and gestures … The army depends on the official placed in charge of it … peace and its opposite, war, on the ambassador. For the ambassador alone makes and separates allies; the ambassador transacts that business by which kings are disunited or not.

      —THE MANUSMRITI, HINDU SCRIPTURE, CA. 1000 BCE

      THE DIPLOMAT HAD NO CLUE that his career was over. Before stepping into the secure section of the American embassy, he’d slipped his phone into one of the cubbies on the wall outside, according to protocol. The diplomat had been following protocol for thirty-five years, as walls crumbled and empires fell, as the world grew smaller and cables became teleconferences and the expansive language of diplomacy reduced to the gnomic and officious patter of email. He had missed a few calls and the first email that came in was terse. The director general of the Foreign Service had been trying to reach him. They needed to speak immediately.

      The diplomat’s name was Thomas Countryman, which seems like it must be made up, but is not. He was sitting СКАЧАТЬ