In "Duty," Gates explains at length how he served as broker amid an extremely complex set of policy choices.
But as a study of the larger-than-life figure who served as broker of the strange, complex and conflicted marriage between America and Arabia, Mr Ottaway's work is surely definitive.
We serve as brokers, helping business owners find the right sources of capital for their companies.
In Iraq, the U.S. role is officially defined as "advise and assist," but the advisers have basically designed the offensive, and have served as brokers between the Iraqis and the Kurds.
Further along the food chain lie London's traders, who serve as brokers between African exporters and Western cocoa processors, or buy and sell speculatively in the futures markets.
Most existing studies of criminal networks focus on characterizing the roles of individual members, especially those whose roles are central [1, 20, 23, 25] or who serve as brokers [18, 26 31].
By 1948 the biomedical industry had begun pushing legislation to legally require animal shelters to provide shelter dogs and cats to research institutions either directly or via dealers who served as brokers collecting dogs and cats from several sources for sale to laboratories.
In this way, disease genes appear to serve as "brokers".
Members of this network may serve as brokers to introduce new ideas into policymaking circles [ 37].
Other authors also noted that community representatives and CABs can also serve as brokers in bringing researchers and the local community together [ 22].
