War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence Audiobook (Free)

A book for anyone interested to know more about how exactly the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow.

‘This is one of the most significant books of our period.’ Walter Isaacson

‘A masterpiece’ Dan Simpson, Post-Gazette

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US foreign plan is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America’s place in the world. Organizations of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep about War on Serenity: The End of Diplomacy as well as the Decline of American Impact budget slashes; the diplomats who make America’s deals and shield democratic interests around the world are strolling out in droves. Offices across the State Department sit down empty, while overseas the military-industrial complicated has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. Progressively, America is definitely a nation that shoots 1st and asks queries later.

In an astonishing trip from your corridors of power in Washington, DC, for some of the most remote and dangerous locations 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 first-hand encounter as a former State Department public affords an individual look at a number of the last standard bearers of traditional statecraft, including Richard Holbrooke, who produced peacefulness in Bosnia and died while trying to do so in Afghanistan.

Drawing on newly unearthed documents, and richly up to date by rare interviews with warlords, whistle-blowers, and policymakers – including every living secretary of condition from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson – War on Peace makes a robust case for an endangered job. Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after years of political cowardice, short-sightedness, and outright malice – nonetheless it may just provide a way to avoid it of a world at war.