Hard Choices
Hard Choices
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艰难的选择
DOI：
10.2307/j.ctt1vxm8xt.24
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2009
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William R. Doyle
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作者：
William R. Doyle
《艰难抉择》详细描述了希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿从2009年到2013年担任国务卿的四年。这本书的大部分内容涵盖了她在任期间面临的主要外交政策挑战或“艰难选择”，并按主题组织，从“重返亚洲”、美国从阿富汗撤军、与俄罗斯的“重启”、阿拉伯之春和叙利亚的“邪恶问题”开始，途经中国、缅甸、巴基斯坦、欧洲、拉丁美洲、非洲、中东、利比亚、伊朗和加沙。这些中心章节集中在错综复杂的外交事务上，结构也很相似：她以一个小插曲开头，解释了她所面临的挑战，以及她是如何应对的（通常是成功的），最后指出了她从自己的经历中学到了什么。在这些主要章节之间，克林顿提供了她在2008年总统竞选失败后立即面临的困难的其他见解，并在书的最后，先发制人地确立了她在2016年总统竞选的关键国内问题上的立场，特别是气候变化，就业，能源政策，发展，数字外交和人权（在2015年出版时，克林顿尚未正式宣布参选）。
Hard Choices details Hillary Rodham Clinton’s four years as Secretary of State, from 2009 to 2013. The bulk of the text covers the major foreign policy challenges or ‘hard choices’ she faced during her time in office, organised thematically, starting with the ‘pivot’ to Asia, the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, the ‘reset’ with Russia, the Arab Spring, and the ‘wicked problem’ of Syria, via China, Burma, Pakistan, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Libya, Iran, and Gaza. These central chapters focus on the intricacies of diplomacy and are similar in structure: she opens with a vignette, explains the challenge she faced, how she dealt with it (usually successfully), ending by noting what she learned from her experience. Bookended between these main chapters, Clinton offers other insights into the difficulties she faced in the immediate aftermath of her unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign, and at the end of the book, pre-emptively sets up her stances on key domestic issues for the 2016 presidential race, specifically climate change, jobs, energy policy, development, digital diplomacy, and human rights (at the time of publication, in 2015, Clinton had not officially declared her candidacy).