| 词条 | John Brady Kiesling |
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| birth_date = 1957 | birth_place = Houston, Texas | nationality = United States | notable_works = Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley Swarthmore College | occupation = Diplomat Author Lecturer | website = | footnotes = [1] }}John Brady Kiesling is a former U.S. diplomat and the author of Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower (Potomac Books 2006). He was the first of three U.S. foreign service officers to resign, on February 25, 2003, to protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell was posted by The New York Times and circulated widely.[2] An archaeologist/ancient historian by training, Kiesling entered the foreign service in 1983. He served in Israel, Morocco, Greece, Washington, and Armenia, returning to Athens as chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in 2000. After his resignation, Kiesling spent a year as a visiting fellow/lecturer at Princeton University, and then returned to Athens. Until May 2009, he wrote a monthly column called "Diplomat in the Ruins" in the "Athens News" in Greece.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} Kiesling supported the multilateralist foreign policy of former President George H.W. Bush and the limited purposes of the 1991 Gulf War.[3] {{cquote|Mr. Kiesling's personal crisis began in October, at a diplomatic party in Athens. He ran into an old friend and source from a stint in Athens 15 years earlier, a Communist who had spent years in Greek prisons. The pair had always sparred politically, but a warm friendship endured.He holed up and read, but the cloud of despair wouldn't lift. Finally, in late February, when Mr. Bush made clear he wouldn't be defied, even by the U.N. Security Council, Mr. Kiesling drafted his resignation letter and quit. Suddenly, he felt "a certain lucidity, a strong, liberating feeling," he says.[4]}} Other books by Kiesling include Rediscovering Armenia (2003) and Greek Urban Warriors: Resistance and Terrorism 1967-2014 (2014). Personal lifeAccording to his biography at the site [https://topostext.org/who-we-are ToposText] (to which he contributes translations of ancient Greek texts), Kiesling lives in Athens, Greece, and "his happiest moments…are spent tramping over remote, thorn-covered hillsides or as an archaeological volunteer (Ancient Corinth 1980, Ancient Nemea 1981, Vorotan Armenia 2007, Aphrodisias 1982, Zagora 2014, Methone 2015). His current interests include ancient Greek religion and Greek topography." Kiesling is the father of the novelist and critic Lydia Kiesling.[5][6] Books
References1. ^{{cite web |last=Kiesling |first=John Brady |title=Personal Information |work=bradykiesling.com |url=http://www.bradykiesling.com/personaldata.htm |accessdate=2011-06-04}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kiesling, Brady}}2. ^{{cite news |last=Kiesling |first=John Brady |date=2003-02-27 |title=U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/27WEB-TNAT.html?ex=1227502800&en=1fc74d8d62dbb786&ei=5070 |accessdate=2011-01-18}} 3. ^Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom - Page 137 by Walter C. Swap, Dorothy Leonard-Barton 4. ^{{cite web |last=Waldman |first=Peter |date=April 1, 2003 |title=After Resigning to Protest War, A Diplomat Turns Peace Envoy |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB104906398323807000 |subscription=yes}} 5. ^Lydia Kiesling, {{cite web |title=Throwing Away the Most Beautiful Dress I Ever Owned |url=https://www.thecut.com/2016/04/dress-that-made-me-believe-i-belonged.html |publisher=The Cut |accessdate=2018-11-14 }} 6. ^Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State, FSG, New York, 2018, p. 292 7 : 1957 births|Living people|American diplomats|People from Houston|University of California, Berkeley alumni|Swarthmore College alumni|United States Foreign Service personnel |
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