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History Shock - When History Collides with Foreign Relations (Hardcover)
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History Shock - When History Collides with Foreign Relations (Hardcover)
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For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as
a Foreign Service officer in North America, South America, the
Caribbean, and Africa. In History Shock: When History Collides with
Foreign Relations Dickson offers valuable insights into the daily
life of a Foreign Service officer and the work of representing the
United States. Dickson organizes History Shock around a
country-by-country series of lively personal experience vignettes
followed by compelling historical analysis of the ways in which his
inadequate understanding of the host country's history,
particularly its prior history with the United States, combined
with his lack of knowledge of his own nation's history lead to
history shock: where dramatically different interpretations of
history blocked diplomatic understanding and cooperation. John
Dickson offers these 'stories with a history' to highlight the
interaction between history and foreign relations and to underscore
the costs of not knowing the history of our partners and
adversaries, much less our own. In both Mexico and Canada in
particular our lack of knowledge and understanding of how our long
history of military interventions continues to complicate our
efforts at developing mutually beneficial relationships with our
two closest neighbors. In Nigeria and South Africa, Dickson
experienced firsthand how the history of racism in the United
States plays out on a world stage and clouds our ability to
effectively work with key African nations. Perhaps the starkest
example of history shock, of two nations with deeply conflicted
views of their own histories and their shared history, is another
country near at hand, Cuba. Not all of the gaps are too wide for
bridge building; in Peru, Dickson provides an example of how
history can be deployed to mutual advantage. The Foreign Service
has long sought to improve its training, to provide some form of
'playbook' or 'operating manual' with systematic case studies for
its officers. In History Shock Dickson provides not only a model
for such case studies but also a unique contribution of an
interpretive framework for how to remedy this deficit, including
recommendations for strengthening historical literacy in the
Foreign Service.
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