Author Archives: amdiplo

Various Authors, Foreign Service Journal, November-December 2025

Service Disrupted: Views from the Field
Kate Yeo, Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Strategic Costs of U.S. Exchange Program Cuts in Southeast Asia

Connor Echols, Responsible Statecraft
Is there a brewing crisis in the State Dept’s Mideast Bureau?

Max Rego, The Hill
Radio Free Asia halting operations for first time in 29-year-history amid shutdown

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The message below from the American Foreign Service Association’s general counsel is a stark reminder of the challenges faced today by our country’s professional diplomats. Urgent Message from AFSA’s General Counsel: Your Rights Are at Risk   Dear Colleagues,   … Read more

RIF’d State and AID Employees, American Foreign Service Association
Service Disrupted: Firsthand Accounts from the Field

Alex Thomas, Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Ex-USAID worker mourns agency’s fate

Day Mount, The Falmouth Enterprise
AFSA: A Union That Can’t Strike

Nahal Toosi, Politico
Trump is breaking US diplomacy, State Department staffers say

Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor
State Department cuts raise a question: What is the US national interest?

Sarah Gal, Public Diplomacy Council of America
People to People Outreach — How It Works for Orlando Florida

Abigail Williams and Dan De Luce, NBC News
U.S. diplomats say they’re reluctant to share inconvenient truths with the Trump administration

The Cost to America and the World The American Diplomacy journal has focused its mission on presenting the voices of practitioners:  commentaries and stories from people who “have been there.”  With this section of the journal, we aim to explore … Read more

John Dinkelman, Newsweek
American Diplomacy Is Being Dismantled Before Our Eyes 

William J. Burns, The Atlantic
A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants 

Americans for Cultural Exchange Action Alert

John Dinkelman, Foreign Policy
Trump’s State Department Cuts Are a Self-Inflicted Wound

Matthew Wallin, American Security Project
Carelessly Reducing the Size of the State Department is a Profound Mistake 

Terry Gerton interview with Ambassador Gordon Gray, Federal News Network
National security risks behind a wave of cuts at the State Department

Shiv Patel and Karen Ames, Asia Times
The agony and death left by USAID’s exit from Myanmar

Michael C. Loftus, War on the Rocks
Gutting U.S. Government Humanitarianism Makes the Defense Department’s Job Harder

Mark Asquino and Pat Kushlis, Santa Fe New Mexican
Foreign Service budget cuts should be reversed

Ken Brill, The Hill
Trump is causing generational damage to American diplomacy

Elizabeth Shackelford, The Bulletin
Commentary: Burning down America’s best tool for peace and prosperity

Michael Boorstein, Democracy of Hope
USAID closure will hurt America

Christopher Hill, Colorado Public Radio
Former ambassador talks diplomatic rollback, international implications

The Editor’s Page Commentary Shifting Sands for Public Diplomacy in the USSR and Russia by Michael Hurley The Destruction of USAID: How to Cause Innocent Deaths, Save Little Money, Betray Our Legacy and Help Our Adversaries by W. Robert Pearson … Read more