Policing a disorderly world: Burundi
“How is the United States to avoid taking matters into its own hands and becoming the world’s policeman if multinational institutions fail to do the job?” BURUNDI by J. R. Bullington L i k e R w a … Read more
“How is the United States to avoid taking matters into its own hands and becoming the world’s policeman if multinational institutions fail to do the job?” BURUNDI by J. R. Bullington L i k e R w a … Read more
The United States and the in World Affairs: Room Enough for Two? By Jerrold I. Berke P erhaps no other international organization is as well known in the United States as the United Nations. Nevertheless, though its name is instantly … Read more
EDITOR’S CORNER Biographic Information (cont.) As the reader of these scrolled pages may have noticed, only a small band of colleagues make up the staff and Editorial Advisory Board of this journal. But as Seneca so wisely noted long … Read more
by Shelley Mattox MARK TWAIN once complained that the “idiot Parisians” failed to understand their own language when he spoke to them in French. Everyone who has been abroad knows the challenge of coping with languages not his own, and … Read more
Cold War Diplomatic Negotiations A Personal Recollection by J. Edgar Williams I n early 1953, I finished my year as a Fulbright scholar in New Zealand and headed home. I teamed up with three other Americans who also had been … Read more
We take pleasure in presenting the following commentary drawn from remarks made 11 February 1997 at a meeting of the English Speaking Union at Southern Pines, North Carolina, by a former U.S. ambassador to two Central African nations. His remarks … Read more
The following commentary, written originally for readers of French by a former member of the U.S. Foreign Service now retired in France, addresses an obviously controversial topic. These musings were occasioned by the publication of an article by Mead Jennings … Read more
As our readers will note elsewhere in this issue of American Diplomacy, Roy M. Melbourne led an event-filled life as a U.S. Foreign Service officer from 1936 to 1971. Not least of those experiences, which he recounts in his autobiography, … Read more
by Curtis F. Jones “In an imperfect world, terrorism, like war, is a necessary evil.” On July 20, 1944, a massive conspiracy against Adolf Hitler culminated in the explosion of a bomb at his headquarters in Rastenburg. Hitler escaped with … Read more
I was the only third secretary, the diplomatic equivalent of a second lieutenant, when I arrived at our embassy in Lisbon in January of 1948 on my first Foreign Service assignment. As part of my indoctrination, the ambassador decided that … Read more
O ur readers will note, we hope, that in this ‘issue’ of American Diplomacy all three of our featured, more lengthy articles — those by Dick Kohn, Frank Crigler, and Curt Jones — take the form of essays rather than … Read more
Are We Seeing the Twilight of Professional Diplomacy? The Money Crunch A C C O R D I N G T O N E W S reports, the U. S. military establishment, 1.2 million people strong, costs some $246 … Read more
Mr. Kennedy, director of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program based at the Foreign Service Institute outside Washington, DC, and a retired Foreign Service officer, has provided American Diplomacy the following description of the Program and its offerings, along with … Read more
by Ronald D. F. Palmer I. History of Recent TimesTHIS IS WRITTEN IN 1996, one year after the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II was widely celebrated in the United States and Europe. The Asians marked the … Read more
by Robert H. Dorff WITH THE PUBLICATION of A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement in July 1994, the Clinton Administration formally articulated the United States strategic objective of “protecting, consolidating and enlarging the community of free market democracies” … Read more