The Sit Room is a swift-moving narrative set over three years in the world's most important policy-making sanctum: the White House Situation Room. This book exposes the secret deliberations of the Clinton Administration as it grappled with shattered proposals to end the genocidal war in Bosnia. This behind-the-scenes story reveals authentic policy-making at the highest levels, with a unique journey into the arena of war and peace where spirited debate guided America's foreign policy.
The Sit Room is a swift-moving narrative set over three years in the world's most important policy-making sanctum: the White House Situation Room. This book exposes the secret deliberations of the Clinton Administration as it grappled with shattered proposals to end the genocidal war in Bosnia. This behind-the-scenes story reveals authentic policy-making at the highest levels, with a unique journey into the arena of war and peace where spirited debate guided America's foreign policy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David Scheffer worked in the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council during the early 1990's when the Balkans War raged. He then became America's first Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001). A graduate of Harvard, Oxford, and Georgetown universities, he is the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and is widely published in international law and politics. Ambassador Scheffer was one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "Top Global Thinkers of 2011," won the Berlin Prize in 2013, and received the Champion of Justice Award from the Center for Justice and Accountability in 2018.
Inhaltsangabe
Cast of Characters Entities and Actions Chapter I: Shattered Plans, 1993 Chapter II: Ethnic Cleansing Wins, 1994 Chapter III: To Stay or Not to Stay, January-June 1995 Chapter IV: Finally, Diplomacy Backed by Force, July-August 1995 Chapter V: Forging Peace, September-December 1995 Epilogue Index