The following information was submitted to American Diplomacy by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, a consortium of faculty members at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, all located in the … Read more

  We agreed to finish out our tour in Ankara, Turkey, by filling an unexpected staffing gap at the Consulate in Istanbul. In exchange for camping out for five months with only 400 lbs of air freight trucked to us … Read more

by Edward L. Peck   Ambassador Peck, a thirty-two-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, now retired in the Washington, DC, area, recounts one of his less run-of-the-mill experiences as the principal officer of a small U.S. consulate.      ~ Ed. , … Read more

State’s Adjunct “Accidental Diplomats” Foreign Service Spouses By Linda Killen  The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse By Katherine L. Hughes (Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Aletheia, 1999, Pp. x, 180. $17.95 paper) Were it not for its title, American Diplomacy … Read more

Medical Encounters in Cuba, Late 1990’s AD Follow-up An American Diplomacy interview with author Patricia Linderman In a separate article in this issue, the author describes an aspect of diplomatic life in Castro’s Cuba during recent years. Here Mrs. Linderman … Read more

Review by Adam Yarmolinsky   The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization By Thomas L. Friedman (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Pp. xix, 394. $27.50 cloth.)   Returning to Tokyo on a bullet train from a visit … Read more

KOSOVO ALTERNATIVES? July 29, 1999 Jim Bullington did an excellent job summarizing all the standard arguments of why NATO should not have intervened militarily in Kosovo and Bosnia before it [American Interests, American Values, and War in the Balkans, SUMMER … Read more

Review by John M. Belohlavek Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire By Lawrence S. Kaplan (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Pp. xvii, 198 . $50 cloth; $17.95 paper.)   When Scholarly Resources sought to identify an author to … Read more

“Otto von Bismarck, the German Chancellor, said those who like sausage and the law should never watch them being made. We might add the conduct of foreign policy in a decentralized democracy to that list.”  Alliance in Doubt American Reaction … Read more

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:22:27 EDT Subject: China Update TO: Washington State China Relations Council Members & Friends FROM: Joseph J. Borich, Executive Director   The following two e-mail messages, sent by former U.S. Foreign Service officer and China … Read more

by Carl Fritz Our vision of China today is that of an emerging gigantic economic and military power, one with a huge trade surplus with the United States and a reputation sullied by violations of human rights, spying to obtain … Read more

By Ralph D. Sawyer The author presented an earlier version of this paper at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, on March 22, 1996, as part of the “Study of War Project” sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. He … Read more

“Waging the peace in Kosovo may prove to be much more difficult than waging the war.” By Barry Ryland-Holmes Among issues raised by NATO’s intervention in Kosovo is the complex question of self-determination. Mr. Ryland-Holmes, an attorney, analyzes state sovereignty … Read more

  By Nancy Mitchell   The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography By Louis A. Perez, Jr. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 168 . $16.95 paper.)   Rarely … Read more

By Minxin Pei The author is a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace. In assessing the likelihood of instability in China, he focuses for short-term purposes more on economic than political factors.His conclusions point up the need … Read more

Port-au-Prince (Haiti) – le vendredi 14 avril 1972 Une Visite au Foyer “Alice Garoute” à Cazeau By Jack L Nixon He also serves who only stands and waits, or who only visits USAID-supported rural schools and waits. The author made … Read more

 On August 25 the Department of State released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, volume XXXIV, Energy Diplomacy and Global Affairs. In the mid-1960s newly-emerging issues, such as space flight, the technology gap, world population growth, human rights, and … Read more

Medical Encounters in Cuba, Late 1990’s Doctors for Dollars By Patricia Linderman The author, a U.S. Foreign Service spouse since 1990, describes diplomatic life in Castro’s Cuba during recent years. Mrs. Linderman is now serving with her husband at a … Read more

Somalia as a case study for a ‘commerce-based’ alternative Revising the U.N. Trusteeship System — Will It Work? By Harry A. Inman and Walter Gary Sharp, Sr. The authors, both attorneys with international experience, bring to bear on their analysis … Read more

– E X T R A C T – by David G. Brown Through the courtesy of the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Amb. Ron Palmer, we present in this issue excerpts from the … Read more