Category: Commentary
Un nuevo tipo de intervencion para Colombia
La comunidad internacional puede impulsat un processo que no comienza por Gustavo Valdivieso The author of the following analysis, commenting on an article by U. S. Ambassador Robert E. White in an issue of American Diplomacy entitled “The Wrong War,” … Read more
Chinese Warfare: The Paradox of the Unlearned Lesson
by Ralph D. Sawyer Given the recent developments in relations between the United States and China, we at American Diplomacy thought it would be interesting to publish again, especially for those who might have missed it, Ralph Sawyer’s insightful study … Read more
False Dissenters
Manhattan Project Scientists and the Use of the Atomic Bomb by Peter N. Kirstein The author, looking at primary sources in a new light, reaches a conclusion that challenges received wisdom about the attitude of the original atomic scientists on … Read more
Quebec enters the millenium
A retired senior American diplomat, the author held the position of minister-counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa for four years during the mid-1990s and has followed the Canadian scene closely since then. In this detailed analysis … Read more
James Burnham, the first Cold Warrior
by Francis P. Sempa Often we remark that the convert exhibits an unusually devoted commitment to his or her new cause. Such evidently was the case with the subject of this essay. Remembered as an anticommunist American intellectual and dedicated … Read more
Will there be peace in Somalia now?
A sympathetic world at first greeted news in late August of successful political negotiations in neighboring Djibouti with pleasure. Judging from news reports, Somalia seemed at last on the path toward national reconciliation and recovery — long overdue after a … Read more