Tag: East Asia Pacific
The Brujas of Saipan
by Bobbie Bergesen Again we have the pleasure of offering up a vignette recounting the experience of the author, a sketch taken from her years as the spouse of a Foreign Service officer. You may click here for other of … Read more
The Armed ‘Ugly American’ of the Orient
Review by Carl R. Fritz
Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia.
By Charles T. Cross. (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. 281.)
U. S. Department of State Releases Foreign Relations of the United States Volumes
On the Soviet Union, 1964-1968, the Near East Region and Arabian Peninsula, 1964-68; and South Korea, 1964-68
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Mythed Opportunities: Comment on Vietnam form Personal Experience
The author, a frequent contributor of articles and commentary to this journal (see in particular his “Religion and Romance in Wartime Vietnam” in the Summer 1998 issue of American Diplomacy), holds that on the basis of his experience, the Vietnam … Read more
From Repression to Reform? Indonesian Politics and the Military, 1997-1999
by Ronald D. Palmer BALANCE AND HARMONY ARE HIGHLY prized values in complex Indonesia, a state with more than 7,000 islands, 200 million people and hundreds of dialects and cultures where 87 percent of the population is Muslim, but where … Read more
Indonesia CONFRONTING THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS
By Theodore Friend Further to the attention paid in this issue of American Diplomacy to Indonesian affairs, there follows the text of the author’s testimony before the House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, February … Read more
From Post Cold War to Post Westphalia
By Edward D. Marks In 1684 the Treaty of Westphalia brought to a close eighty years of religious wars in Europe with new rules of international law establishing the modern state system. The foundation of this system is the sovereign … Read more
Dullesian Ad Hoc Raison d’état Rehabilitated
By Nick Sarantakes John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy By Richard H. Immerman (Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 221.) In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Richard Immerman was part of a … Read more
Alliance in Doubt American Reaction to the 1960 US-Japanese Security Treaty Crisis
“Otto von Bismarck, the German Chancellor, said those who like sausage and the law should never watch them being made. We might add the conduct of foreign policy in a decentralized democracy to that list.” Alliance in Doubt American Reaction … Read more
Is China Unstable?
By Minxin Pei The author is a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace. In assessing the likelihood of instability in China, he focuses for short-term purposes more on economic than political factors.His conclusions point up the need … Read more
Extract: Southeast Asia–One year after the Outbreak of the Financial Crisis
– E X T R A C T – by David G. Brown Through the courtesy of the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Amb. Ron Palmer, we present in this issue excerpts from the … Read more
In Memoriam: Francis Trelease Underhill, Jr.
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.