Monthly Archives: February 2020
Making “Devoted Efforts” Visible: The National Museum of American Diplomacy
The National Museum of American Diplomacy
by Jane Carpenter-Rock
Ralph J. Bunche – U.N. Mediator in the Middle East and Nobel Laureate
by Renee M. Earle
Strengthening the Relationship Between Embassies and U.S. Special Operations Forces: Part 1, the Current Environment
by Carter Wilbur
Strengthening the Relationship Between Embassies and U.S. Special Operations Forces: Part 2, Five USSOF–Embassy Truths
by Carter Wilbur
Filming Manhole Covers in Chile
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
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
The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin
by Douglas Smith
Reviewed by Renee M. Earle
Books of Note for 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.
