David A. Andelman
Auteur de A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
Œuvres de David A. Andelman
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Andelman, David A.
- Date de naissance
- 1944-10-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Organisations
- World Policy Journal
USA Today
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 103
- Popularité
- #185,855
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 8
Tackling the history, background and development of many of the world's tensest stress points, Andelman guides us across the globe discussing amongst others the likes of China, Russia, Korea and Iran. The author is highly authoritative, experienced and knowledgeable and admirably able in depicting the underlying forces of military and diplomatic struggle preventing the diverse pressure points from exploding into all-out war. This book is also acutely topical and timely as the regular rotation of White House residents has yielded a new, but yet again familiar face, and returned a number of experienced diplomats to this administration. Their resolve undoubtedly is soon to be evaluated, just as their predecessors were. Repeated prodding for weaknesses in the resolved support for red lines across the globe will probably set the tone in 2021. As diplomacy quite evidently took a back seat during the last US administration, and the world's attention has over a year been diverted by the corona-crisis, the red lines described by the author will be no doubt again be severely tested and face being redrawn. Hard-going at times, but I thoroughly enjoyed every chapter.… (plus d'informations)