Author Archives: amdiplo

Abigail Williams, NBC News
Diplomacy in decline

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Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News
US diplomats undergoing divisive new review process

Jeffrey Kluger, Time
Shutting Down USAID Led to a Rise in Global Violence, Study Says

Jennifer Hansler, CNN
As global crises multiply, scores of US diplomats say they have been forced out

Mary Kuntz, Federal News Network
You can’t recruit talent into a system people don’t trust

American Foreign Service Association
AFSA Statement on State Department Reductions in Force

Association of Black American Ambassadors
ABAA Statement on Zambia Aid

Jory Heckman, Federal News  Network
Amid hiring push, State Dept finalizes hundreds of layoffs initiated last summer

Steven E Hendrix, Asia Times
With USAID gone, Indo-Pacific allies face the fallout

Laura Kelly, The Hill
USAID has $19B to close out agency. Critics push to use funds to save lives

Michele Kelemen, NPR
The State Department has had a surge in new retirements

Dennis Jett, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Trump: Down with diplomats, down with aid

John Dinkelman, The Hill
While America fights a war, the State Department is focused on dress codes

Lisandra Gomez-Tate, 2paragraphs
Former U.S. Ambassador to China Says Just 7% of U.S. Ambassadors Are Career Diplomats, “Our Country Deserves Better”

Commentary
Lessons Learned from Middle East Diplomacy by Daniel C. Kurtzer
The Regime Change America Got Right by Christopher Datta
Planlosigkeit in the Persian Gulf by Luke Zahner
Redesigning US Assistance to Africa in the Post-USAID Era by Mark G. Wentling
Eisenhower’s Public Affairs Legacy by Rick Ruth
Diplomatic Clarity and the Western Sahara File: Lessons from US Envoys by Mohamed Elbaikam

Eyewitness
The Cardinal’s Bath by Donald Kursch
Linguistic Competence and Diplomacy: Was Bulgaria Really the Sixteenth Soviet Republic? by Jonathan Rickert
The Diplomat as Reality TV: How Accurate Is It? by Melissa Clegg-Tripp

by Raymond Smith

by Daniel C. Kurtzer

by Christopher Datta

by Luke Zahner

by Mark G. Wentling

by Rick Ruth

by Mohamed Elbaikam

by Donald Kursch

by Jonathan Rickert

by Melissa Clegg-Tripp

The Great Global Transformation: The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Order
By Branko Milanovic

Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News
By Martin Moore and Thomas Colley

The War that Made The Middle East: World War I and The End of the Ottoman Empire
By Mustafa Aksakal

Democracy and Inequality in India: Political Economy of a Troubled Giant
By Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali

Political Trust in China
By Lianjiang Li

Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime
By Marlene Laruelle

Beatrice Camp, Public Diplomacy Council of America (PDCA)
Where Will the Next Generation of China Hands Come From?

Steven E. Hendrix, Newsweek
America Is Weakening the One Asset It Needs To Compete With China

Philip Wang, Time
‘It’s Not Working’: Diplomats Fear Trump’s Iran Envoys Are Making Things Worse

Nahal Toosi, Politico
Diplomatic cables show Iran war is damaging US on multiple fronts across the world