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From the Embassy is a robust and incisive defence of U.S. foreign policy as well as a devastating attack on prevailing Irish misconceptions about the use of American power in an increasingly dangerous world. In particular, George Dempsey demonstrates that Ireland's political, academic and media elites have allowed a self-justifying leftist fixation on the United States to destroy the integrity of our own country's foreign policy debate. Dempsey argues strongly on a case-by-case basis that his country's foreign policy has been, and remains, based on sound moral and political principles and that it is not the United States but its critics who have questions to answer about the correct response to enemies of democracy and freedom.
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Having served as the First Secretary for Political Affairs at the American Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, Dempsey says he became concerned over a reflexive "anti-Americanism" that is based on Irish "misconceptions" of US foreign policy and is demonstrated by such actions as Ireland's joining the vast majority of the rest of the world in condemning the US embargo of Cuba. After speculating on the causes of this "anti-Americanism"--"begrudgery," "misinformation," and "Irish myths of national self-identity"--he presents cases that he feels better represent US foreign policy and diplomacy, all of which he has been involved in over different parts of his career. These cases include the promotion of democracy in Spain and Venezuela, negotiations at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, East-West economic negotiations at the Economic Commission for Europe, the first US-Iraq Gulf War, and the Northern Ireland conflict. Distributed in the US by Dufour Editions. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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