Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations - Political Memoir & Diplomatic Strategy Book for US Foreign Policy Enthusiasts
Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations - Political Memoir & Diplomatic Strategy Book for US Foreign Policy Enthusiasts

Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations - Political Memoir & Diplomatic Strategy Book for US Foreign Policy Enthusiasts" (Note: This is already in English. I added keywords like "political memoir" and "diplomatic strategy" for SEO, specified the book format, and included the target audience "US foreign policy enthusiasts" as a usage scenario.)

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With no-holds-barred candor, Donald Trump's new National Security Adviser and former ambassador to the United Nations takes us behind the scenes at the UN and the US State Department and reveals why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the UN resulted in controversy. He also shows how the US can lead the way to a more realistic global security arrangement for the twenty-first century and identifies the next generation of threats to America. In this revealing memoir, John Bolton recounts his appointment in 2005 as Ambassador to the United Nations, his headline-making Senate confirmation battle, and his sixteen-month tenure at the United Nations. Bolton offers keen insight into such international crises as North Korea's nuclear test, Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, the genocide in Darfur, the negotiation that produced the controversial end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, and more. Chronicling both his successes and frustrations in taking a hard line against weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferators, terrorists, and rogue states such as North Korea and Iran, he also exposes the operational inadequacies that hinder the UN's effectiveness in international diplomacy and its bias against Israel and the United States. At home, he criticizes the bureaucratic inertia in the US State Department that can undermine presidential policy. This fascinating chronicle of the career of one of America's outstanding statesmen who has fought to preserve American sovereignty and strength at home and abroad now contains a new afterword, "Challenges for the Next President."

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John Bolton's memoirs meet his billing as a "gray battleship" that keeps firing.Bolton's advocacy for America, more human freedom and voluntary UN contributions clearly makes the book at least somewhat agenda-driven, but unsurprising for an in-again, out-again, back-in American Enterprise Institute (a major conservative think tank) fellow. That said, this book allows a full portrait into the messy UN Bureaucracy.Also, like with many bureaucratic organizations (I've worked with and in public service bureaucracies), Bolton realizes for reform he must not be the lone wolf but on the synergy with other perm reps to the UN. Bolton wasn't out to take out 10 stories of the UN HQ when Ambassador... he was out to weaken the then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan who considered himself a "Secular Pope" who could have (and had) bit the hand of America that pays over 20% of the UN's bills and streghen member nations' voices in the UN.Ultimately, I really felt this book gave me an education in the nature of the UN as well as how to reform bureaucracies and have already given one as a Christmas present to a pen pal. Hence the 5 stars. A must have for any conservative or watchdog of the United Nations.
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