Category: Commentary
The Editor’s Page
Raymond F. Smith The Commentary section of this issue offers perspectives on the practice of diplomacy that range from the historical through the contemporary to considerations of future challenges. Thomas E. McNamara offers a perspective on the Monroe Doctrine that … Read more
The Monroe Doctrine After 200 Years: A Strategic Hinge Period in American History
by Thomas E McNamara
How Climate Diplomacy is a Pillar of Efforts to Address Climate Change
by Ambassador Robert Blake
Honoring Diplomats Punished for Doing their Job Well
The Case of George Horton by Ismini and Chris Lamb The Department of State recently set a useful precedent by honoring Archer Blood, the U.S. consul general in Dhaka during Pakistan’s brutal suppression of free elections in East Pakistan (now … Read more
Coming to Grips with Poverty in Africa
by Mark G. Wentling Reducing poverty has been at the heart of U.S. foreign assistance in dozens of low-income countries for more than a half-century. Despite U.S. foreign policy objectives, much work, and hundreds of billions of assistance dollars expended, … Read more
The Guinea Worm, President Carter and Me
A Journey Through Health Diplomacy By Lisa Rotondo In September 2001, just days before 9/11, I arrived in Pissila, Burkina Faso for my Peace Corps assignment. I was eager to get to work helping my new home community do surveillance … Read more
February 2023
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