Hachette India

The Long Game

Derek Chollet

In this inside assessment of Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy, Derek Chollet tackles the prevailing consensus to argue that Obama has profoundly altered the course of American foreign policy for the better and positioned the United States to lead in the future. The Long Game combines a deep sense of history with new details and compelling insights into how the Obama Administration approached the most difficult global challenges. With the unique perspective of having served at the three national security power centres during the Obama years- the White House, State Department, and Pentagon- Chollet takes readers behind the scenes of the intense struggles over the most consequential issues: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the meltdown of Syria and rise of ISIS, the Ukraine crisis and a belligerent Russia, the conflict in Libya, the tangle with Iran, the turbulent relationship with Israel, and the rise of new powers like China.An unflinching, fast-paced account of U.S. foreign policy, The Long Game reveals how Obama has defied the Washington establishment to redefine America's role in the world, offering important lessons for the next president.>

Derek Chollet

Derek Chollet is the author of The Road to the Dayton Accords: A Study American Statecraft and coauthor of America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11. He assisted Richard Holbrooke with the research and writing of his book To End a War and served as Holbrooke's chief speechwriter while he was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Samantha Power: " Samantha Power is the executive director of the Carr centre for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for U.S. News and World Report and The Economist. In 1996 she worked for the International Crisis Group (ICG) as a political analyst helping launch the organization in Bosnia. She is a frequent contributor to The New Republic and is the editor with Graham Allison of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. A native of Ireland she moved to the United States in 1979 at the age of nine and graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. She lives in Winthrop Massachusetts. "