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Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world (Asia from 1977 to 1981 and Europe from 1994 to 1996). From 1993 to 1994, he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Long well known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence when he, together with former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995. Holbrooke was a leading contender to succeed the retiring Warren Christopher as Secretary of State but was passed over in 1996 as President Bill Clinton chose Madeleine Albright instead. From 1999 to 2001, Holbrooke served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He was an adviser to the Presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry in 2004. Holbrooke then joined the Presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and became a top foreign policy adviser. Holbrooke was considered a likely candidate for Secretary of State had Kerry or Hillary Clinton been elected President. In January 2009, Holbrooke was appointed as a special adviser on Pakistan and Afghanistan, working under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.〔 He served until he died from complications of an aortic dissection on December 13, 2010.〔(Newsweek (2010, Dec. 12). ''An American in Full''. )〕 Holbrooke's unfulfilled ambition was to become Secretary of State; he, along with George Kennan and Chip Bohlen, were considered among the most influential U.S. diplomats who never achieved cabinet rank. Several considered Holbrooke's role in the Dayton Accords to merit the Nobel Peace Prize.〔http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/14/holbrooke-in-the-trenches.html〕〔http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/16/richard-holbrooke-s-lonely-mission.html〕〔http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/14/richard-holbrooke-a-disappointed-man.html〕〔http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/14/an-american-in-full.html〕 ==Early life== Holbrooke was born on April 24, 1941, in New York City, to Dan Holbrooke, a doctor, and Trudi Kearl (née Moos), a potter; brother, Andrew, survives him.〔〔Sciolino, Elaine. – “Man in the News – Richard C. Holbrooke; A Tough Man (Some Say Brutal) for a Tough Job”. – ''The New York Times''. – June 19, 1998.〕 Holbrooke's mother, whose Jewish family fled Hamburg in 1933 for Buenos Aires before coming to New York, took him to Quaker meetings on Sundays. She stated: “I was an atheist, his father was an atheist... We never thought of giving Richard a Jewish upbringing. The Quaker meetings seemed interesting.” Holbrooke’s father, who died of cancer when Richard was 15 years old,〔 was born of Polish Jewish parents in Warsaw and took the name Holbrooke after migrating to the United States in 1939. The original family name was Goldbrajch.〔Petition for Naturalization of Dan Holbrooke, U.S. District, Southern District New York Court #487977 dated 22 May 1944〕 After Scarsdale High School, Holbrooke earned a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1962, attending on a full-tuition scholarship.〔 He was later a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, leaving in 1970.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Holbrooke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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