The Demilitarization Of American Diplomacy: Two Cheers For Striped Pants

Both an insider and a historian, Laurence Pope describes the contemporary dysfunction of the State Department and its Foreign Service. While the Defense Department and the American military services have reinvented themselves in a decade of failed nation-building wars, the State Department is promising to do a better job of nation-building next time. Its policy functions have migrated to the White House. Secretaries of State largely ignore the State Department bureaucracy, circumventing it with a personal staff. Pope contends that in the information age diplomacy is more important than ever, and that, as President Obama has stressed, without a 'change of thinking' the U.S. may be drawn into more wars it does not need to fight.

• • Author: Laurence Pope
• • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• • Publication Date: Jan 29, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 89 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137298545
• • ISBN-13: 9781137298546