'The American Stake in Europe, the European Stake in the United States'

is an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, Peace Corps director, and investment banker. He is also the only person to have held the Assistant Secretary of State position for two different regions of the world (Asia and Europe). Although long well-known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence only when he brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995. Although he lost out to Madeleine Albright in 1997 when Bill Clinton chose a replacement for Warren Christopher as Secretary of State, Holbrooke is still seen as a leading contender for that post in any future Democratic administration. He was an advisor to the Presidential campaign of John Kerry in 2004.

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