Description: Peacemakers serves as a potent reminder that American leadership and multilateral cooperation are often critical to resolving international crises.
Brief description: James W. Pardew was at the heart of US national policymaking throughout the humanitarian crises in the Balkans from Richard Holbrooke's negotiations on Bosnia in 1995 until the independence of Kosovo in 2008. Ambassador Pardew was the primary US negotiator of the Ohrid Agreement in Macedonia. He also led Balkan task forces for the Secretaries of Defense and State and served as a policy advisor at NATO. Prior to his diplomatic service, he spent twenty-seven years in the US Army as an intelligence officer.
Review Quotes:
Americans can be glad Ambassador James Pardew was, as he describes it in this insightful book, 'drawn to the Balkans.' As readers will discover here, Jim Pardew contributed repeatedly and consequentially to the causes of peace and justice in what was once a much more violent part of Europe. This is also an important study of how and when to use all the tools of statecraft available to accomplish the mission. And the lessons Jim learned, clearly catalogued at the end, are as compelling as the story of his diplomacy.
--Marc Grossman, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs