BEYOND WAR Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East David Rohde New York: Viking, April 2013 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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ISBN-13 978-0-670-02644-9 | ||||
ISBN-10 0-670-02644-1 | 220pp. | HC | $27.95 |
Page 12: | "The agency was a shell of its cold war self." |
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Page 120: | "In 2005, he returned to Pakinstan to coordinate USAID's response to a devastating earthquake in the country's north." |
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Page 141: | "Second, to use e-commerce to preserve Egypt's traditional handcraft sector..." |
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Page 150: | "The fellowship was unpaid and did not offer fellows a housing stipend." |
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Page 153: | "Others, he found, were committed to government service but beaten down by a system that resisted changed." |
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Page 153: | "Fearful of criticism and budget cuts from Capitol Hill, risk aversion was endemic across the government..." |
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Page 160: | "The right approach, the better approach, is bite-sized contracts and grants that are close to the action, that are more flexible, that can't respond to changed approaches..." |
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Page 170: | "Washington's continued infighting and partisanship is taking too great a toll." |
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