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Chargement... A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars That Might Still Happenpar David A. Andelman
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"A longtime columnist for CNN and veteran correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News astutely combines history and global politics to help us better understand the exploding number of military, political, and diplomatic crises around the globe. The riveting and illuminating behind-the-scenes stories of the world's most intense "red lines," from diplomatic and military challenges at particular turning points in history to the ones that set the tone of geopolitics today. More red lines exist in the world today than at any other single moment in history. Whether it was the red line in Munich that led to the start of the Second World War, to the red lines in the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, Syria and the Middle East. As we traverse the globe, Andelman uses original documentary research, previously classified material, interviews with key players, and reportage from more than 80 countries across five decades to help us understand the growth, the successes and frequent failures that have shaped our world today. Andelman provides not just vivid historical context, but a political anatomy of these red lines. How might their failures be prevented going forward? When and how can such lines in the sand help preserve peace rather than tempt conflict?"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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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. (