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Richard Holbrooke was an American diplomat who served in various high-level government positions during his career from the 1960s until his death in 2010. He is remembered as an influential figure in U.S. foreign policy, particularly for his work on major diplomatic initiatives during the Cold War and post-Cold War era.
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- Power and the Idealists
- The Road to the Dayton Accords
- East Asia in Transition: Challenges for the Trilateral Countries
- Meine Mission. Vom Krieg zum Frieden in Bosnien
- To end a war
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Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world, (Asia from 1977 to 1981 and Europe from 1994 to 1996) assisting in brokering a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia leading to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords. Holbrooke was a prime contender to succeed Warren Christopher as Secretary of State but was passed over in 1996 as President Bill Clinton chose Madeleine Albright instead.
From 1999 to 2001, Holbrooke served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He was an adviser to the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry in 2004. Holbrooke then joined the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton and became a top foreign policy adviser. Holbrooke was considered a likely candidate for Secretary of State had Kerry or Hillary Clinton been elected president. In January 2009, Holbrooke was appointed as a special adviser on Pakistan and Afghanistan, working under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During his career, Holbrooke worked to improve the lives of refugees, particularly the Hmong of Indochina. On December 13, 2010, Holbrooke died from complications of an aortic dissection.
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1941 births2010 deaths20th-century American diplomats20th-century American male writers20th-century American non-fiction writers21st-century American diplomatsAmbassadors of the United States to GermanyAmerican International GroupAmerican people of German-Jewish descentAmerican people of Polish-Jewish descentAmerican QuakersAssistant secretaries of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs