Special from the Editor: Uganda Book Drive Initiative A message from Daniel Cook University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee How many of us own books that we only read once and then let sit on the shelf to collect dust? How many of … Read more

by Gene Schmiel DID YOU EVER WONDER WHY Reader’s Digest has a section every month entitled “Humor in Uniform” about the military but not one entitled “Humor in Striped Pants and Morning Coat” about the Foreign Service? The easy answer … Read more

On Professionalism Among American Ambassadors by Henry Mattox As the philosopher had it, “However much thou art read in theory, if thou hast no practice, thou art ignorant.” THIS OBSERVATION, WHILE AN OVERSTATEMENT, reflects much truth, whether in an intellectual … Read more

In which he identifies by name and position the journal’s parent organization Board of Directors, with special reference to additions since the journal’s founding in 1996. IN PREVIOUS ISSUES—Volume II, Numbers 1 and 2—we provided biographic information on the nine … Read more

The author, who retired from the US Foreign Service after twenty-seven years, is on the journal’s Editorial Review Board. He has published a number of commentaries and essays in the pages of American Diplomacy, including most recently a personal vignette … Read more

Riding Free, Into and Out of Haiti Foreign Service fiction by JACK L. NIXON     In a departure for this or any other primarily scholarly journal that we know of, we present here a work of fiction. The author … Read more

Editor’s Comment — Especially for American Diplomacy , Ambassador Sanz has drawn from his study with the same title published in 1998*, to provide this brief summary of his research. The little-remembered Baltimore incident provides the setting for an intriguing … Read more

The author served as U.S. ambassador to Guinea-Bissau and as deputy representative to ECOSOC at the UN in New York during his more than thirty years in the U.S. Foreign Service. See his “Vietnam Reconsidered” in Vol. III, No. 1 … Read more

The Political-Military Army Officer: Soldier Scholar or Cocktail Commando? By Norvell B. De Atkine “While the military culture has evolved over the years and we now have an Army almost unrecognizable to pre-Vietnam war veterans, one issue has remained pretty … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy AN INTRODUCTION: What Sort of “Venture”? • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION • PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

Conference on Conflict in Africa On February 5-6, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies will hold a conference at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill on conflict in Africa. Our purpose is to gather a distinguished group of scholars from … Read more

by Hermann Frederick Eilts

Author Kenneth Stammerman, shown above with US troops at Dhahran,Saudi Arabia, retired in 1994 as a senior U.S. Foreign Service officer after a career spanning twenty-seven years, much of that time dealing with the Middle East. He took up his … Read more

G. Thomas Goodnight has taught in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University since 1975. In the research field of argumentation his interests include foreign policy issues, rhetoric, criticism, and social theory. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from … Read more

As evidence that U.S. Foreign Service folk do not always dine formally in stuffy diplomatic settings, American Diplomacy offers up the following recipe submitted by retired Foreign Service employee Judy Chidester. Let us know what you think after trying the … Read more