A review by nickyg123
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow

5.0

Just really freaking good. So well-structured (I often think non-fiction isn't structured well and redundant, but that could be a personal thing with non-fiction) and well-written - no surprise coming from this pulitzer winner but seriously, this book reads like a spy novel. The combination of high-level explanations paired with interviews and first-hand accounts worked really well. I particularly liked part 2, exploring the US's failures due to lack of diplomacy in Syria, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, Egypt and Colombia. Just the right thing for a foreign policy nerd. It took me a while, but non-fiction usually does. I'm glad I took the time though.