FOREIGN RELATIONS · WORLD POLITICS
Richard N. Haass
Also known as: Richard Haass, Richard N Haass
- 2003 - date: President of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York - 2001-2003: Director for Policy Planning - US State Department, Washington D. C. and Special Envoy to the Northern Ireland Peace Process - 1989-1993: Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council and Special Assistant to President George H. W. Bush - Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings Institution, New York, N. T- - Sol M. Linowitz visiting professor of international studies at Hamilton College - Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government - Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies - MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University - BA from Oberlin College (from Council of Foreign Relations biography for media use)
Ricardo Romero was feeling decidedly uneasy.
— from Intervention, 2009
Most acclaimed
Intervention
2009
"Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment—and her interventionist is found dead at the airport—Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all. Barbara and her son set out to find Emily before Detective Kent Harlan arrests her for a crime he is sure she committed. Fearing for Emily’s life, Barbara maintains her daughter’s innocence, but does she really know her anymore? Meanwhile, Kent has questions of his own. His gut tells him that this is a case of an addict killing for drugs. But as he gets to know Barbara, he begins to hope he’s wrong about Emily. Fear rises as the mysteries intensify: Did Emily’s obsession with drugs lead her to commit murder—or is she another victim of a cold-blooded killer? In this gripping stand-alone novel of intrigue and suspense, bestselling fiction author Terri Blackstock delivers the up-all-night drama that readers around the world have come to expect from her."
The power to persuade
The Power to Persuade answers a fundamental question: how can you safely and successfully navigate a world where persuasion, rather than direct command, is the rule? Scores of business books suggest how to boost profits, but this is the only book to tell managers in government and other public sector organizations how to improve performance when there is no clear bottom line. While teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Richard N. Haass realized that no existing book advised those in political settings how to become more effective. Now he has filled the gap. Using a compass as his operating metaphor - your boss is north of you, your staff is south of you, and so on - he provides guidelines for managing key relationships, setting agendas, and translating goals into results. His interviews with Colin Powell, James Baker, Robert Strauss, and dozens of others yield much practical insight. For the twenty million Americans now employed in the public sector, and for millions more working in complex or unruly organizations of every sort, here is a lively, useful book about practicing the delicate art of persuasion to gain influence and achieve success.