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A review by sonni89
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
5.0
Ronan Farrow is a genius and US foreign policy is generally horrifying.
That's it, that's the review.
No, in all seriousness, this was a super fascinating read and definitely gave me more of an understanding of the ever-growing decline in diplomacy and increase in military use in US foreign policy. Ronan Farrow does an incredible job with this seriously well-sourced book. He got so, so many people on the record, not just every living US Secretary of State, a plethora of diplomats, and a couple of warlords (truly, the chapter on his interview with the Afghan warlord was probably the most fascinating one in the book), it shows the depressing dismantling of the State Department in 2017 and just overall does a really good job covering the negotiation parts of US foreign policy. And yeah, a lot of it is horrifying to read (particularly what kind of foreign regimes US governments end up propping up for their own interests), but it was such a good book.
That's it, that's the review.
No, in all seriousness, this was a super fascinating read and definitely gave me more of an understanding of the ever-growing decline in diplomacy and increase in military use in US foreign policy. Ronan Farrow does an incredible job with this seriously well-sourced book. He got so, so many people on the record, not just every living US Secretary of State, a plethora of diplomats, and a couple of warlords (truly, the chapter on his interview with the Afghan warlord was probably the most fascinating one in the book), it shows the depressing dismantling of the State Department in 2017 and just overall does a really good job covering the negotiation parts of US foreign policy. And yeah, a lot of it is horrifying to read (particularly what kind of foreign regimes US governments end up propping up for their own interests), but it was such a good book.