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  title info:
    title: Dealing with dragons, bears, and some nice people too
    sub title: a diplomatic chronicle
  name:
    name part: Pascoe, Lynn B.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 532 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: This book is a candid insider's take on issues at the core of U.S. foreign policy. Lynn Pascoe writes about momentous events he participated in, giving historians and people interested in U.S. foreign policy a primary source and firsthand perspective on some of the most critical events of the times. He describes the dramatic changes in China, the Soviet Union/Russia, and Southeast and Central Asia and his efforts to invigorate the United Nations' management of conflicts around the world. Pascoe covers tensions in Beijing, the stalling of Kissinger's China diplomacy, the later establishment of formal diplomatic ties, and the fallout from the brutal 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. In the mid-1990s Pascoe led our pseudo-embassy in Taiwan as it developed its democracy, built a thriving economy during the island's "golden age," and weathered a serious missile threat from Beijing. He analyzes the U.S.-Soviet conflicts in the eighties and the transformation of the relationship after Gorbachev's rise to power. Following the monstrous tsunami that killed over 170,000 people in Indonesia's Aceh Province, Ambassador Pascoe led the massive U.S. civilian and military efforts to help alleviate the terrible tragedy. On retirement, he assumed the high-profile job of Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs at the United Nations. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tasked him to transform the UN's Political Department into the leading world actor easing local conflicts around the world. He recounts in frank detail the successes and failures of the new approach. --
  note: B. Lynn Pascoe.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pascoe, Lynn B
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Diplomats
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Ambassadors
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Relations extérieures
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Relations extérieures
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 21e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Diplomates
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Ambassadeurs
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  classification: E183.7 .P23 2024
  classification: 327.730092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series ; v. 76
  identifier: 9798990054264
  identifier: 9798990054257
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250314
    record change date: 20250622023634.2
    record identifier: in00005647905
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng