Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience

My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings

Prudence Bushnell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2021
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
9781640124837 (ISBN)

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The unique story of an American diplomat at the forefront of terrorism and genocide in Africa, covering not only American Diplomacy, but also leadership and management.

On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where Prudence Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassador. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is her account of what happened, how it happened, and its impact twenty years later.

When the bombs went off in Kenya and neighboring Tanzania that day, Congress was in recess and the White House, along with the rest of the United States, was focused on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Congress held no hearings about the bombings, the national security community held no after-action reviews, and the mandatory Accountability Review Board focused on narrow security issues. Then on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. homeland, and the East Africa bombings became little more than an historical footnote.

Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is Bushnell’s account of her quest to understand how these bombings could have happened, given the scrutiny bin Laden and his cell in Nairobi had been getting since 1996 from special groups in the National Security Council, the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA. Bushnell tracks national security strategies and assumptions about terrorism and the Muslim world that failed to keep us safe in 1998. In this hard-hitting, no-holds-barred account, she reveals what led to poor decisions in Washington and demonstrates how diplomacy and leadership will be our country’s most potent defense going forward.

Prudence Bushnell is an American diplomat who has held a series of leadership positions with the U.S. Department of State, including deputy assistant secretary for African Affairs, ambassador to the republics of Kenya and Guatemala, and dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute. After retiring from the Foreign Service, Bushnell founded the Levitt Leadership Institute at Hamilton College in New York and continues to speak on the importance of practicing leadership. She has earned numerous awards for diplomacy and leadership, including three honorary doctorates.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part 1. What Happened?
1. The Bombing
2. The Past as Prologue
3. The Response
4. The Impact
5. The Turning Point
6. The Consequences

Part 2. How Did It Happen?
7. The Proxy War
8. The Blowback
9. The Plots
10. The Plans
11. The Execution

Part 3. So What?
12. The Outcomes
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2021
Zusatzinfo	29 photographs, Index
Verlagsort	Dulles
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-13	9781640124837 / 9781640124837
Zustand	Neuware