Monthly Archives: May 2023
How Climate Diplomacy is a Pillar of Efforts to Address Climate Change
by Ambassador Robert Blake
Honoring Diplomats Punished for Doing their Job Well
The Case of George Horton by Ismini and Chris Lamb The Department of State recently set a useful precedent by honoring Archer Blood, the U.S. consul general in Dhaka during Pakistan’s brutal suppression of free elections in East Pakistan (now … Read more
Coming to Grips with Poverty in Africa
by Mark G. Wentling Reducing poverty has been at the heart of U.S. foreign assistance in dozens of low-income countries for more than a half-century. Despite U.S. foreign policy objectives, much work, and hundreds of billions of assistance dollars expended, … Read more
The Guinea Worm, President Carter and Me
A Journey Through Health Diplomacy By Lisa Rotondo In September 2001, just days before 9/11, I arrived in Pissila, Burkina Faso for my Peace Corps assignment. I was eager to get to work helping my new home community do surveillance … Read more
Where the “Marshall Plan” Became the Organization for European Economic Cooperation
by Renee M Earle
Books of Interest May 2023
A Professional Foreigner: Life in Diplomacy By Edward Marks Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press, April 2023 304 pages Young American Foreign Service officers are accustomed to being teased by friends and relatives as to what they do in the “Foreign … Read more