Ronan Farrow. (2018). War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence. W. W. Norton & Company.

Ronan Farrow. 2018. War On Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence. W. W. Norton & Company.

Ronan Farrow, War On Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Ronan Farrow. War On Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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   • bioText: Ronan Farrow is an investigative journalist who writes for The New Yorker and makes documentaries for HBO. He has been an anchor and reporter at MSNBC and NBC News, and his writing has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, and the National Magazine Award, among other commendations, and has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is also an attorney and former State Department official. He lives in New York City.
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A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and IndieBound bestseller

Finalist for the Colby Award

A new, revised and updated edition of a modern classic of foreign policy, a harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.

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 its citizens around the world are walking out in droves. 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 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. His firsthand 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 recently unearthed documents, and richly informed by rare interviews with whistle-blowers, a warlord, and policymakers—including every living former secretary of state from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson—and now updated with revealing firsthand accounts from inside Donald Trump's confrontations with diplomats during his impeachment and candid testimonials from officials in Joe Biden's inner circle, War on Peace makes a powerful case for an endangered profession. Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political cowardice, shortsightedness, and outright malice—but it may just offer America a way out of a world at war.

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   • source: Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and professor of history, Tulane
   • content: With astonishing reporting and gripping prose, Ronan Farrow tells the powerful story of the gutting of American diplomacy...War on Peace is an indispensable and fascinating revelation of what diplomats actually do for our country and why undermining them is so dangerous. Farrow is a riveting storyteller with a great eye for colorful characters. This is one of the most important books of our time.
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   • source: Dan Simpson;Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
   • content: A masterpiece....The writing sparkles.
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   • source: Rosa Brooks;Washington Post
   • content: Lively writing, astute commentary, and plenty of great stories, laced through with passion and outrage.
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   • source: Martha Raddatz, ABC News chief global affairs correspondent
   • content: Will be required reading for generations to come. It is perhaps the most riveting and relatable book on foreign policy and diplomacy I have ever read.
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   • source: Rachel Maddow;The Rachel Maddow Show
   • content: A big rip-roaring argument about America giving up on diplomacy.... This book will make Ronan Farrow lots more enemies.... [H]e's got a bunch of new scoops.
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   • source: Ian Bremmer, editor-at-large, Time magazine
   • content: Only someone as incisive and unflinching as Farrow could have written this book—and we should all be thankful that he did. A must-read.
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   • source: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan;The New York Times Book Review
   • content: His wry voice and storytelling take work that is often grueling and dull and make it seem...vividly human.
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   • source: Jonas Ecke;Global Policy Journal
   • content: A captivating insider account of the militarization of US foreign policy.... Farrow's book sometimes reads like a spy novel.
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   • source: David Shribman;Globe and Mail
   • content: Dogged research and persuasive argument.... Farrow brings to his book astonishing access.... [He is] an indefatigable and imaginative reporter.
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    • source: Barbara K. Bodine;San Francisco Chronicle
    • content: Has the United States turned its back on diplomacy, and on its diplomats? And if so, at what cost? Farrow makes a good case that we have, and that the cost will be high.... He captures extraordinarily well what the work of diplomacy means.
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      May 7, 2018
      War has eclipsed diplomacy as the main instrument of U.S. foreign policy with dire consequences, according to this searching exposé of a crumbling State Department. New Yorker journalist Farrow, a former State Department official, examines the decadeslong waning of the department’s clout as its budgets were slashed and its diplomatic counsels ignored by presidents who pursued military solutions to global crises. The results, he argues, were disastrous. The U.S. backed brutal warlords in Afghanistan and rejected possible settlements with the Taliban; sponsored a counterinsurgency that killed countless civilians in Colombia; in Somalia supported warlords and an Ethiopian invasion against a relatively innocuous Islamic regime, sparking Islamist terrorism; and, in the Trump era, struggles with the damage from presidential policy-by-tweet. Farrow blends analysis with vivid reportage (his portrait of Afghan warlord Ahmed Rashid Dostum, in a palace furnished with reindeer, shark tank, and Christmas lights, is classic); his firsthand recollections of State Department icons, such as the brilliant, blustering Richard Holbrooke, make diplomacy feel colorful and dramatic rather than gray and polite. Farrow doesn’t quite demonstrate how diplomacy would succeed in quagmires like Afghanistan, but his indictment of the militarization of American foreign policy is persuasive. Photos.

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      Nations deal with each other through trade and diplomacy--or war. Guess which one the current administration favors?"Diplomats perform many essential functions--" writes New Yorker contributor Farrow, perhaps best known for breaking the story of film executive Harvey Weinstein's long pattern of sexual depredations, "spiriting Americans out of crises, holding together developing economies, hammering out deals between governments." In the absence of diplomacy, the most likely alternative is war, and by the author's account, the tendency of American foreign policy since the George W. Bush administration has been militarized. (In this, he notes, the Obama administration is not blameless.) Farrow profiles many men and women who have spent time in Foggy Bottom, the headquarters of a State Department that has been all but emptied. Says former diplomat Tom Countryman, whereas in former transitions, "there were people who were knowledgeable about foreign affairs...who had experience in government," Donald Trump's team brought none of this to the table. Farrow contrasts this with the likes of Richard Holbrooke, Colin Powell, Hillary Clinton, and even the freelancing Joanne Herring, who helped convince Texan Charlie Wilson to push for funding for the mujahedeen--"in the view of some, laying the foundations for 9/11." In the vast vacuum between experience and what we have now--i.e., arrogance wedded to incuriosity and indifference--Farrow warns that "the balance of global diplomatic power is shifting." American diplomats may be missing from the conversation, but Chinese diplomats are everywhere winning influence for their country. The author's interlocutors warn that it might take years to rebuild the State Department, to say nothing of America's reputation; even Condoleezza Rice warns that the diminution of America's commitment to a democratic diplomatic mandate "would be a spectacularly bad idea."Excellent, wide-ranging reporting and sharp-edged analysis make this a book that's sure to be talked about inside the Beltway--and that deserves a wide audience beyond.

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Finalist for the Colby Award

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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 its citizens around the world are walking out in droves. 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.

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