ISD Books

Coalition, Coercion and Compromise

    ISD, 1997

A singular feature of the Gulf Crisis was the successful American effort to form, coordinate, maintain, and successfully employ an international coalition of unprecedented size and complexity. . . . However, the histories and studies to date have dealt only indirectly with the coalition-building effort. This study, by a diplomatic veteran of the crisis, is an effort to fill that gap--to look at the diplomacy of the coalition effort and its results, as well as to draw a number of lessons for future diplomacy. Ambassador Gordon Brown brought to this study the perspectives of a senior diplomat who had direct, firsthand experience in the American coalition-building efforts, as a result of his service as General H. Norman Schwarzkopf's political adviser during the crisis. Ambassador Brown has also provided insight into the interaction between diplomatic efforts to avoid conflict and military operational requirements. -- Casimir A. Yost, Director, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy

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