The Foreign Service Journal, May 2010

enough to stay on top of the issues and jargon in my own bailiwick (first the law of the sea, then nuclear issues), let alone to follow the reports of the other directors under Smith’s supervision. The dialogue ranged from space explo- ration and the chemistry of the atmos- phere to the migratory movements of fish and mammals. When the news broke in 2000 that the conference room had been bugged for years by the Russians, I speculated that our counterintelligence games- men had left the device there on pur- pose — so the Russians would waste endless time trying to figure out what they were hearing added up to. Happily, the author has made ad- mirable sense of it all in this wonder- fully readable account of lessons learned from his leading role in eight difficult negotiations: • Bringing China, India and others in as parties, and updating the Mon- treal Protocol to protect the ozone layer in the stratosphere; • Achieving an agreement to con- trol and monitor driftnet fishing, and laying the basis for the eventual pro- scription of the practice; • Agreeing with Canada on meas- ures to curtail acid rain; • Agreeing, again with Canada, on protection of migrating caribou; • Reinstituting a dormant scientific exchange with the USSR; • Implementing President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 promise to build an in- ternational space station jointly with other nations (initially Canada, Japan and nine European countries; later joined by Russia); • Confronting the Stalinist regime of Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov at a 1989 meeting in Sofia, thereby helping to empower a nascent Bulgar- M A Y 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 65 B O O K S This is a wonderfully readable account of lessons learned from eight difficult negotiations.