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The Dissent Channel - American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age (Hardcover)
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The Dissent Channel - American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age (Hardcover)
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In 2017, the State Department lost 60% of its career ambassadors.
Hiring has been cut and the budget slashed. The idealistic women
and men who chose to enter government service are leaving in record
numbers, jeopardizing operations both domestically and
internationally, and eroding the U.S. standing on the world
stage.In There Are No Good Guys, former State Department official
Lizzy Shackelford shows this erosion first-hand through her
experience within the precarious rise and devastating fall of the
world's newest country, South Sudan. Shackleford's excitement about
the possibility of encouraging democracy from the ground up quickly
turns to questioning, then to shock at the under-resourced American
embassy in the capitol and at the miscommunication and willful
ignorance perpetuated within the State Department itself. She
argues that the decline in diplomacy didn't begin with the current
administration, and illustrates the damaging effects of an American
foreign policy approach that gives short shrift to the values of
democracy, accountability, and human rights that we have long
feigned to promote in our overseas engagements.Policy and politics
come alive through Shackleford's sense of storytelling and
suspense, as she weaves extraordinary tales of life as a young
female diplomat with a wry sense of humor and a skeptic's thirst
for understanding. And in navigating both American bureaucracy and
the fraught history and present of South Sudan, she conveys an
urgent message about the evolving (and devolving) state of U.S.
foreign policy.
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