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Notes
PROLOGUE
1. Memo to Secretary of State–Designate Christopher, January 5, 1993, “Parting Thoughts: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Years Ahead.”
2. Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 836.
CHAPTER 1: APPRENTICESHIP: THE EDUCATION OF A DIPLOMAT
1. 1984 Amman 6594, July 16, 1984, “The Changing Face of Jordanian Politics.”
CHAPTER 2: THE BAKER YEARS: SHAPING ORDER
1. George Kennan, Memoirs, 1925–1950 (Boston: Atlantic–Little, Brown, 1967), 326–27.
2. Thomas Friedman, “Washington at Work; In Quest of a Post–Cold War Plan,” New York Times, November 17, 1989.
3. Quoted in Michael Beschloss and Strobe Talbott, At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War (Boston: Little, Brown, 1993), 25.
4. George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed (New York: Random House, 1998), 12.
5. Memo to Deputy Secretary Eagleburger, April 10, 1990, “Deepening U.S.–East European Relations.”
6. Quoted in John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (New York: Penguin Press, 2005), 248.
7. David Hoffman, “U.S. Envoy Conciliatory to Saddam,” Washington Post, July 12, 1991.
8. Memo to Under Secretary Kimmitt, August 4, 1990, “Kuwait: The First Post–Cold War Crisis.”
9. Memo to Kimmitt, August 20, 1990, “Containing Saddam: Diplomatic Options.”
10. 1990 Riyadh 2457, November 20, 1990, “Reflections on Post-Crisis Security Arrangements in the Persian Gulf.”
11. Memo to Secretary Baker, April 30, 1992, “Foreign Policy in the Second Bush Administration: An Overview.”
12. Memo to Secretary of State–Designate Christopher, January 5, 1993, “Parting Thoughts: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Years Ahead.”
CHAPTER 3: YELTSIN’S RUSSIA: THE LIMITS OF AGENCY
1. 1994 Moscow 35565, December 9, 1994, “Russia on the Eve of the Vice President’s Visit.”
2. William Jefferson Clinton, “Remarks to the American Society of Newspaper Editors,” Annapolis, Maryland, April 1, 1993.
3. Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (New York: Random House, 2002), 5.
4. 1994 Moscow 27483, September 22, 1994, “Yeltsin and Russia on the Eve of the Summit.”
5. Tom De Waal, “Chechnya: The Breaking Point,” in Chechnya: From Past to Future, ed. Richard Sakwa (London: Anthem Press, 2005), 187.
6. 1995 Moscow 883, January 11, 1995, “Sifting Through the Wreckage: Chechnya and Russia’s Future.”
7. Interview with Secretary Christopher, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, PBS, November 13, 1994.
8. Thomas Pickering, Oral History Interview, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, April 18, 2003.
9. 1995 Moscow 5788, February 22, 1995, “Yeltsin and Russia Totter On.”
10. 1995 Moscow 19971, June 26, 1995, “Coping with Uncertainty: Russia on the Eve of the Vice President’s Visit.”
11. 1995 Moscow 6176, February 24, 1995, “Ambassador’s Meeting on Chechnya with Disaster Relief Expert.”
12. 1995 Moscow 19896, June 26, 1995, “Ingush and Chechen Views on the Fred Cuny Case.”
13. Ibid.
14. 1995 Moscow 26910, August 23, 1995, “Cuny Case.”
15. 1995 Moscow 19971.
16. Richard Holbrooke, To End a War (New York: Random House, 1998), 117.
17. 1995 Moscow 32066, October
5, 1995, “Thoughts on the Eve of the VP’s Meeting.”
18. Memo of Conversation Between Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin, May 10, 1995, National Security Council and NSC Records Management System, “Declassified Documents Concerning Russian President Boris Yeltsin,” Clinton Digital Library.
19. 1994 Moscow 35186, December 6, 1994, “Russia and NATO.”
20. 1995 Moscow 32066.
CHAPTER 4: JORDAN’S MOMENT OF TRANSITION: THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP
1. 1999 Amman 615, January 26, 1999, “A Poignant Farewell.”
2. Jeremy Konyndyk, “Clinton and Helms Nearly Ruined State. Tillerson Wants to Finish the Job,” Politico, May 4, 2017.
3. 1999 Amman 1059, February 7, 1999, “King Hussein’s Legacy and Jordan’s Future.”
4. “Jordan’s Hussein Says His Cancer Is Curable,” CNN, July 28, 1998.
5. Hourani letter to author, April 1984.
6. Dana Priest, “CIA Taps Richer for Operations Post,” Washington Post, November 30, 2004.
7. 1998 Amman 9928, November 5, 1998, “Your Visit to Jordan.”
8. 1998 Amman 9517, October 20, 1998, “Staying Ahead of Events in Jordan.”
9. 1999 Amman 1059.
10. 1999 Amman 3867, May 10, 1999, “A Young Man in a Hurry.”
11. 2000 Amman 698, February 8, 2000, “Keeping a Sense of Perspective About King Abdullah’s First Year.”
12. 2000 Amman 1909, April 12, 2000, “Political Drift in Jordan.”
13. 1999 Amman 1588, February 26, 1999, “Jordan in Transition.”
14. 2000 Amman 5743, October 15, 2000, “The Tragedy Across the River and Jordan’s Uncertain Future.”
15. Ibid.
16. 2000 Amman 6760, December 5, 2000, “Peace Process: Relaunching American Diplomacy.”
17. 2001 Amman 336, January 22, 2001, “Abdullah Faces a Troubled New Year.”
18. 2001 Amman 1658, April 2, 2001, “King Abdullah’s Visit to Washington.”
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