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The dissent channel : an American diplomat in a dishonest age / Elizabeth Shackelford.
Van Pelt Library E901.1.S533 A3 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shackelford, Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shackelford, Elizabeth.
- United States. Department of State--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Department of State.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- International relations.
- Diplomatic and consular service, American.
- South Sudan.
- Diplomatic and consular service, American--South Sudan--Biography.
- United States--Foreign relations--South Sudan.
- South Sudan--Foreign relations--United States.
- South Sudan--Politics and government--2011-.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Nonfiction.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 291 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2020.
- Summary:
- "A promising young diplomat's account of her assignment in South Sudan, the world's youngest nation on the brink of civil war, and an explanation of the ways US foreign policy has utterly failed in its diplomacy and accountability around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Juba, July 2-13
- Muddying the narrative
- Human rights, America's just not htat into you
- Stretched, August 2013
- Do less with less, do more with war
- The blue house
- Open for business, September-October 2013
- The business of diplomacy
- The end of the beginning, November-December 2013
- A war begins, December 15, 2013
- No safe haven, December 16, 2013
- Drawdown, December 18, 2013
- Diplomacy is the long game
- Destruction, December 19-25, 2013
- A new year, December 26, 2013-January 3, 2014
- Refugees, January-February 2014 (Uganda)
- Trial and error, March-May 2014
- Leaving Juba, June-July 2014
- Quieting the voices of opposition
- The last resort, February-July 2015
- All your friends are false, all your enemies are real, October 2015-September 2016
- Resignation, 2016-2017.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781541724488
- 1541724488
- OCLC:
- 1117631661
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