In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond.

First edition of this travelogue that examines the complex history and politics of Eastern Europe. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, Association copy, inscribed by author on the front free endpaper, "Dear Dr. Albright, Thanks for your service in connecting morality and realism. Robert Kaplan" The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO, “which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I think that we don’t need any of those three “Ds” to happen.” After her tenure as Secretary of State, she served as chair of the consulting Albright Stonebridge Group and was the Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. For Albright’s contributions to foreign policy and relations that defined a century, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bookplate to the front pastedown from, “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Jacket design by Greg Mollica.