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Diplomacy in Crisis, April 16 2025

April 2025

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 what is at stake in the current diplomacy crisis, focussing on the views of practitioners, but also including commentary from informed observers from academia and the media.

Diplomacy in Crisis, April 9 2025

April 2025

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 what … Read more

Diplomacy in Crisis, April 2 2025

April 2025

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 do the same. … Read more

Diplomacy in Crisis, March 26 2025

March 2025

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 do the same. … Read more

Diplomacy in Crisis, March 19 2025

March 2025

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 do the same. … Read more

February 2025

February 2025

The Editor’s Page Commentary Unsolicited Thoughts on How the New Administration Can Improve American Diplomacy by Raymond F. Smith Biden’s Troubled Foreign Policy Legacy by P. Michael McKinley Communicating with the People or with the Leadership Elite? A Diplomatic Juggling … Read more

Bohlen’s Dictum: First, Be There

February 2025

by Thomas E. McNamara On my first foreign service posting in Paris, my boss, Ambassador Charles Bohlen, said that the diplomatic service required many skills, but the most important one was “being there when something happens.”  Later, working on Vietnam … Read more