On August 25 the Department of State released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, volume XXXIV, Energy Diplomacy and Global Affairs. In the mid-1960s newly-emerging issues, such as space flight, the technology gap, world population growth, human rights, and … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced an important forthcoming conference on China, to be held on the campus Thursday, November 4, 1999, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Organized by the University’s Center for International Studies … Read more

It may be that any man’s death diminishes each of us, as John Donne held in the seventeenth century. Certainly the recent passing after a brief illness of Frank Underhill lessens all who knew him or knew of him. We at American Diplomacy feel a special sense of this loss.

The SUN (Spouses’ Underground Newsletter), focuses on the challenges of overseas life. It’s published three times a year and is chock full of anecdotes, articles, opinions, Real Post Reports, poetry, satire, and meaningless bits of information. Virtually every item in … Read more

     READERS WILL NOTE THAT American Diplomacy this issue includes two reviews of books in the international relations field, one by Dr. Rorin M. Platt of Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the other by Richard Schenck, a retired U.S. … Read more

Special from the Editor: Uganda Book Drive Initiative A message from Daniel Cook University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee How many of us own books that we only read once and then let sit on the shelf to collect dust? How many of … Read more

In which he identifies by name and position the journal’s parent organization Board of Directors, with special reference to additions since the journal’s founding in 1996. IN PREVIOUS ISSUES—Volume II, Numbers 1 and 2—we provided biographic information on the nine … Read more

Gene Schmiel Kathryn (Bonnie) Schmiel American Diplomacy is pleased to announce the publication of a book of essays and Foreign Service memoirs by two of its most popular authors, Gene and Kathryn Schmiel, whose articles have appeared frequently in this … Read more

American Diplomacy takes pleasure in making available to its readers an announcement by the Journal’s sponsoring organization, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (T.I.S.S.) ~ Ed.   An Update: Plans unfolding for TISS Conference on Conflict in Africa February 5-6, … Read more

American Diplomacy takes pleasure in making available to its readers an announcement released by the Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., on September 8, 1998. ~ Ed. Foreign Relations Volume Covering Berlin, Cuba Crises Released During … Read more

EDITOR’S CORNER – “RIGHT TIMING is in all things the most important factor” Hesiod, the Greek farmer-poet observed some 2,700 years ago. If timing is indeed everything in life, this includes even the world of electronic publishing, an endeavor which … Read more

Like WCPE, We Launch a Campaign to Improve Our Signal I’ M A BIG OPERA FAN, so every Saturday afternoon during opera season I tune in faithfully to my favorite classical music station, WCPE in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and enjoy … Read more

American Diplomacy takes pleasure in making available to its readers an internship announcement submitted by author and scholar Eugene Schmiel. (Be sure not to miss Dr. Schmiel’s piece entitled “Ms. Hearst, I Presume” in the current issue of this Journal). … Read more

American Diplomacy takes pleasure in making available to its readers a press release, dated April 7, 1998, provided by the Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. ~ Ed. Important News U.S. Foreign Relations Series Laos Volume (1964-1968) Released … Read more

American Diplomacy takes pleasure in making available to its readers a press release, dated February 13, 1998, provided to us by the U.S. Department of State.~ Ed. Important News Historian’s Office Page Added to Department of State Web Site   … Read more

Since 1979 the Department of State has been publishing a comprehensive documentary record of the foreign policies of the Eisenhower administration in its Foreign Relations of the United States series. Volume III, 1958-1960, National Security Policy; Arms Control and Disarmament, … Read more

FROM THE PUBLISHER ~ Frank Crigler is publisher of “American Diplomacy” and president of newly-formed non-profit corporation American Diplomacy Publishers. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. His biographic sketch was published in Vol. I, No. 3 of this journal. We … Read more

Stuart Kennedy, a retired Foreign Service officer, is director of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program, based at the Foreign Service Institute outside Washington, D.C. In a previous issue of American Diplomacy (Vol. I, No. 2), Mr. Kennedy, described the … Read more

A Bit of Boasting . . .  Signs of Intelligent Life Out There! by Frank Crigler J o d i e   F o s t e r, the single-minded, highly unconventional astronomer in the film “Contact,” relies more heavily … Read more

Editorial Corner We believe it possibly useful and interesting for our readers to know something about the backgrounds of the members of American Diplomacy’s editorial review board and staff. Holding that thought, for what it may be worth, we have … Read more