Insight and Analysis from Foreign Affairs Practitioners and Scholars
Established 1996 • Beatrice Camp, Editor
Although State does not track former PCVs in the department, an average of 5% of new Foreign Service Officers in the last four entering classes reported Peace Corps experience and more than 60 former volunteers have served as U.S. ambassadors.
by Gerald Kamens One morning in March 1959, a top secret policy paper appeared on my boss’s desk at Dwight Eisenhower’s Bureau of the Budget—later reborn as the Office of Management and Budget. Its subject: How to counter the Soviet … Continued
by John Coyne
Editor’s note: This is an unofficial list compiled by John Coyne. Please send any additions or corrections to editor@americandiplomacy.org.
A Frontline Snapshot of USAID History
by Eric Chetwynd, Jr.
An Opportunity to Navigate the Future of Science
by David P. Hajjar and Steven G. Greenbaum
by Liliana Martinez, Brittany Aldredge, Maen Hammad
Link to The Text Message, at the National Archives
August marks the 30th anniversary of the Burmese student pro-democracy demonstrations that began on “8/8/88”. The U.S. subsequently withdrew its ambassador in protest of the military regime, beginning a hiatus in relations that lasted until 2012.
from Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of America’s Long Struggle with Castro’s Cuba
by Ambassador Vicki Huddleston
Copyright c 2018 by Vicki Huddleston. Published by arrangement with The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-4683-1579-0
Review by Gilbert Donahue
Fascism: A Warning. Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward, Harper Collins, 2018, 288 pages including index.