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February 1 Issue

February 2020

Commentary, Eyewitness, ADST, reviews, books of interest

Filming Manhole Covers in Chile

February 2020

by Susan Clyde

American speaker programs were long a staple of US Information Agency (USIA) programs overseas. Not all went as planned.

Trauma in Togo

February 2020

by Mark Wentling In April 1991, while I was serving in Lomé, Togo as the USAID Representative for Togo and Benin, protests in Lomé against the dictatorial regime of President Eyadéma reached the boiling point. One night, President Eyadéma’s barbaric … Continued

Books of Note for February 2020

February 2020

From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide
By Joyce Leader

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyber War and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
By Andy Greenberg

Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
By Ronald C. Rosbottom

From Sadat to Saddam: The Decline of American Diplomacy in the Middle East
By David J. Dunford

Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
By Samuel Moyn

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
By Peter Hessler

Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
By Narges Bajoghli

Fearing the Worst: how Korea Transformed the Cold War
By Samuel F. Wells, Jr.