Chester A. Crocker

Chester A. Crocker

Chester A. Crocker (Chester Arthur Crocker) was born on October 29th, 1941 and is currently 83 years old. Chester A. Crocker was born in New York City, New York, USA. Crocker attended The Ohio State University where he received a history degree, Johns Hopkins University where he received a master's degree and the School of Advanced International Studies where he received a Ph.D.

Chester A. Crocker is a scholar and diplomat that served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 9, 1981 until April 21, 1989 in the Reagan administration.

He was architect of the US policy of constructive engagement towards Southern Africa including apartheid-era South Africa, which has been credited with setting the terms of Namibian independence.

Chester was a lecturer in African government and politics at the American University in Washington, DC from 1969 and 1970. He got recruited to join the National Security Council by Henry Kissinger in 1970 however decided to return to academia in 1972 as director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service program at Georgetown University, where he lectured in international relations and African politics. Over the following 9 years, he advanced to assistant professor, and he finally became associate professor at Georgetown University.

As the chairman of Reagan’s 1980 presidential election campaign’s Africa working group, he sought to change US policy on apartheid South Africa away from what he viewed to be the confrontational approach the Carter presidency had adopted and toward a new policy that he termed constructive engagement.

Right after the election, he attracted the attention of the Reagan transition team with this article that he wrote during the winter 1980/81 edition of the Foreign Affairs journal.

Diplomacy and the Future of World Order offers up three scenarios for future approaches to conflict diplomacy and peace, explored through the lens of regional perspectives and security.

Diplomacy in pursuit of security and peace faces some severe challenges that aren’t seen in decades. Strong states reemerging, destabilizing transnational nonstate actors, discord in the UN Security Council, closing space for civil society within states, and the weakening of the international liberal order all present some new obstacles to diplomacy.

In this book, one international group of experts confronts such challenges to conflict diplomacy and peace, defined as the efforts to manage others’ conflicts, cope with such great power competition, and deal with some threats to the state system itself. And in doing so, they consider three potential scenarios for world order where key states decide to go it alone, return to some kind of liberal order, or collaborate on a case-by-case basis to address common problems and threats.

The three scenarios are then evaluated through the prism of regional perspectives from around the world and for their potential ramifications for major security threats including nuclear nonproliferation, peacekeeping, cyber competition, and terrorism.

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