Richard Holbrooke, a veteran diplomat who was assigned the ‘impossible task’ of bringing the Bosnian war to an end, died on December 13, 2010. Described by former US ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, as a “fine and brutal negotiator”, (BBC News, 14/12/10), Holbrooke was a relentless and energetic diplomat who managed to bring the presidents of Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia to the negotiating table and almost single-handedly secured the peace agreement. His book, To End a War, a fascinating account of his so-called ‘shuttle diplomacy’, was praised as “one of the most important and readable diplomatic memoirs of recent times” (The Washington Post).
Richard Holbrooke’s Career
Holbrooke entered the U.S. Foreign Service in early ‘60s, not long after graduation from Brown University. He served in Vietnam and Morocco and from 1977 to 1981 had a role in Carter Administration. In ’93, under Clinton Administration, he became an ambassador, initially to Japan and later to Germany. The next year Holbrooke became the assistance secretary for Canadian and European Affairs and in 1995 he designed and led negotiations that resulted in Dayton Peace Agreement –his most famous achievement.
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