Righting the Balance: How You Can Help Protect America - Hardcover

Serwer, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612346669 ISBN 13: 9781612346663

Publisher: POTOMAC BOOKS, 2013

Synopsis

When Daniel Serwer is asked what he does, he often replies, “I make peace. I put it in cans and ship it abroad.” That pursuit of peace took him to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, and many places in between during Serwer’s forty years in public service.

His experiences at the sharp end of foreign policy have shaped his view of the United States’ ability to protect itself from today’s threats. In Righting the Balance, Serwer focuses on what should be done to protect the United States by offering alternatives that move away from an exclusive reliance on the military. Most fundamentally, Serwer stresses that civilians—diplomats, aid workers, UN officials, humanitarians, police trainers, lawyers, judges, entrepreneurs—can and should be involved in helping bring about peace.

Righting the Balance offers a proposal to reform our civilian institutions for the twenty-first century so that they can help deliver real results in the search for peace even when confronting difficult conditions in faraway places.

 

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From the Back Cover:

"Daniel Serwer's years in the Foreign Service and his role in bringing peace to the Balkans make him the perfect source for two important questions: how can mere civilians help to save the world; and how should our foreign policy move forward in a way that will ensure America's place in the world along with the health and security of every other nation. Serwer brings a smart, fresh view­point to these issues, and he does it in an accessible and stylish way."
--Tom Daschle, former U.S. Senator from South Dakota and former U.S.
Senate Majority Leader
 
"The national investment over decades that has given our country the world's greatest military has largely neglected the needs of the civilian sector. Policy pundits and the general public alike would be wise to ponder Serwer's thought-provoking suggestions for developing and institutionalizing the civilian ele­ments that U.S. foreign policy will need in the age ahead."--Stephen Hadley, former National Security Advisor to George W. Bush

About the Author:

DANIEL SERWER is a senior research professor in conflict management at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the Middle East Institute. Previously he served as a minister-counselor at the U.S. Department of State. His ideas have been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and many other periodicals. He lives in Washington DC. 

About this edition

• Publisher: POTOMAC BOOKS
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1612346669
• ISBN 13: 9781612346663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232