Schaffer, Howard B.
Career Foreign Service officer and South Asia expert Howard Schaffer served as ambassador to Bangladesh and twice as deputy assistant secretary of state. He was director of studies at the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and author of Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 1993).
In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1994), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of America’s foremost diplomats–from his formative years as a successful businessman through his long diplomatic career. Schaffer highlights Bunker’s seasoned views on the craft of diplomacy, explains the principal “rules” of negotiating strategy Bunker employed,...
The Limits of Influence, the 36th volume in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, is the first systematic study of U.S. efforts to help forge a settlement between India and Pakistan on the sixty-year-old “Kashmir question.” Veteran diplomat Howard B. Schaffer, a former U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh, draws on interviews...