Jon Western

1963

He has taught at Columbia University and George Washington University and worked at the United States Institute of Peace. Western is also a contributor to The Duck of Minerva, a group blog focused on International Relations, and a columnist for Current Intelligence. Jon Western was a Balkans and East European specialist in the United States. State Department"s Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1992, when hostilities broke out in the Western and colleagues from the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency found substantial, corroborated evidence of war crimes (including ethnic cleansing) committed by parties to the conflict, but were unable to convince their superiors to alter United States. policy toward the war and its belligerents. As a result, Western resigned on August 6, 1993. This was one week after Marshall Freeman Harris, the State Department"s "chief specialist on Bosnia" had resigned, and was followed on August 23 by the resignation of the desk officer for Croatia, Stephen Walker. George Kenney, the acting Yugoslav desk officer, had resigned one year before, on August 25, 1992, in protest against the United States. government"s "ineffective, indeed counterproductive, handling of the Yugoslav crisis." According to Samantha Power in her book, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, "it was the largest wave of resignations in State Department history. The departure of so many promising young officers reflected a degree of despair but also a capacity for disappointment among officials not evident in.. previous genocides.".

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Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Media, and the American Public by Western, Jon Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 ( Paperback ) Paperback

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Education

He received his Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College, his Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and his Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University.

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He has taught at Columbia University and George Washington University and worked at the United States Institute of Peace. Western is also a contributor to The Duck of Minerva, a group blog focused on International Relations, and a columnist for Current Intelligence. Jon Western was a Balkans and East European specialist in the United States. State Department"s Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1992, when hostilities broke out in the Western and colleagues from the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency found substantial, corroborated evidence of war crimes (including ethnic cleansing) committed by parties to the conflict, but were unable to convince their superiors to alter United States. policy toward the war and its belligerents.

As a result, Western resigned on August 6, 1993.

This was one week after Marshall Freeman Harris, the State Department"s "chief specialist on Bosnia" had resigned, and was followed on August 23 by the resignation of the desk officer for Croatia, Stephen Walker. George Kenney, the acting Yugoslav desk officer, had resigned one year before, on August 25, 1992, in protest against the United States. government"s "ineffective, indeed counterproductive, handling of the Yugoslav crisis."

According to Samantha Power in her book, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, "it was the largest wave of resignations in State Department history.

The departure of so many promising young officers reflected a degree of despair but also a capacity for disappointment among officials not evident in.. previous genocides.".