This journal is pleased to present below two communications conveying opposing points of view on the current state of American involvement in Iraq. Two U. S. army officers, Tramps C. Croweand Christopher H. Varhola, one a regular and the other a reservist, … Read more

The director of the U. S. Peace Corps program in Niger continues a tradition of more than three years standing by sending to the journal yet another exclusive report. As is always the case, Amb. Bullington presents a fascinating glimpse … Read more

The author, a Foreign Service spouse now retired, who spent many years abroad, recalls days in the Caribbean nation much in the news in recent weeks. Yes, Foreign Service people encounter all kinds of beliefs in their years abroad. Read … Read more

The author, a former graduate student at the University of Michigan, reviews deterrence theory in this long-standing case of the United States and China. Those who are not specialists in the field will find this analysis particularly interesting. —Ed. “The real … Read more

The author, a retired senior Foreign Service officer, combines in this article elements of Life in the Foreign Service with A Look Back in time. How did foreign diplomats travel to and from and within Germany in the years soon … Read more

Sometimes it is the journey itself, not the destination, that one recalls. We have all been on “trips from hell” but as the years pass these trips become ever more memorable in their retelling and constitute some of the romance … Read more

Quietude can be downright pleasurable, particularly as one grows older. I reflected on this while observing (via short-wave radio and satellite TV news) the world’s turmoil at the start of the New Year from the vantage point of one of … Read more

One more of the many installments we have been privileged to present to our readers from the rich store of experiences shared by our retired Foreign Service colleagues. The gist here: “You wanted maybe a piano that plays?”—Ed. The telephone … Read more

Surviving the Heart of Darkness: A Consul’s Tale Review by Michael W. Cotter Captive in the Congo: A Consul’s Return to the Heart of Darkness. By Michael P. E. Hoyt. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 275. $29.95 … Read more

“That day in Guanajuato introduced me to a world of musical pleasure that has brightened the subsequent 40 years.” The year was 1962. The place was the Teatro Juarez, a tiny, century-old jewel of an opera house in the colonial … Read more

Digitalomacy: Extending the Celestial Frontiers of Information Technology Review by David W. Thornton Digital Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Information Age. By Wilson Dizard, Jr. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. With the cooperation of the Center for Strategic and International … Read more

The Winds of War Blow By It would be overstating the case to say that the Iraq War turned out to be a non-event in Niger…but not by much. In the months leading up to the war, many of us … Read more

Through the courtesy of the Foreign Service Journal , we are pleased to present seven personal reports of an unusual but not unknown side of life as a diplomat: the drama of being caught up in dangerous conflicts and experiencing … Read more

The subject of this study was a typical, if in some respects well qualified, U.S. ambassadorial appointee for his time, the early twentieth century: an attorney, judge, and politician who served competently in his one diplomatic assignment, in Berlin, before … Read more

Through the courtesy of the Foreign Service Journal , we are pleased to present seven personal reports of an unusual but not unknown side of life as a diplomat: the drama of being caught up in dangerous conflicts and experiencing … Read more

Through the courtesy of the Foreign Service Journal , we are pleased to present seven personal reports of an unusual but not unknown side of life as a diplomat: the drama of being caught up in dangerous conflicts and experiencing … Read more

Through the courtesy of the Foreign Service Journal , we are pleased to present seven personal reports of an unusual but not unknown side of life as a diplomat: the drama of being caught up in dangerous conflicts and experiencing … Read more

Waiting for War As the chances of war with Iraq have moved from high to certain (in the absence of an unlikely capitulation or internal overthrow of Saddam Hussein in the next couple of weeks—I’m writing this in early February), … Read more

Through the courtesy of the Foreign Service Journal , we are pleased to present seven personal reports of an unusual but not unknown side of life as a diplomat: the drama of being caught up in dangerous conflicts and experiencing … Read more

Through the courtesy of the Foreign Service Journal , we are pleased to present seven personal reports of an unusual but not unknown side of life as a diplomat: the drama of being caught up in dangerous conflicts and experiencing … Read more