Ambassador Mark Palmer is the author of the recently published Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025 (2003) in which he tells the story of all the world’s remaining dictators, their vulnerabilities, and how … Read more

The author has specialized in the study of terrorist groups worldwide for the past twenty years. This essay, originally appearing on www.frontpagemagazine.com. in November 2003, remains relevant to a continuing problem in Iraq—the suicide bombings.— Ed. On October 27, 2003, … Read more

The author suggests briefly that the about-face in Libya’s role on the world terrorist scene beginning last year resulted from focused, selective programs that imposed heavy costs on the Quadaffi regime, not an across-the-board approach.— Ed. Libya’s agreement to take … Read more

by Ronald D. Palmer

The author frequently comments on geopolitics for this journal. Here he notes the importance of a famous long-ago naval battle not only in global historical terms, but specifically for the new United States.—Ed. Nearly two hundred years ago, October 21, … Read more

Not all dangers faced by Foreign Service families abroad derive from the actions of humans, such as terrorist acts or wars. The author recounts the course of a natural disaster at one of her posts and the effect it had … Read more

“Humanistic Political Realism:” Power Politics Via Media Review by James L. Abrahamson A Primer in Power Politics. By Stanley Michalak. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001. Pp. xx, 233. $60 cloth.) The United States, writes Franklin & Marshall professor Stanley Michalak, has … Read more

Acting Alone? Fidel’s African Imperiadventures Review by Margaret Hemenway Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976. By Piero Gleijeses. (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 552. $34.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.) Piero Gleijeses’ Conflicting Missions attempts … Read more

The author recounts how close Uruguay’s Tupamaros came to kidnapping him from his home in Montevideo. It was a potentially dangerous situation, all too common in modern Foreign Service life. — Ed. Montevideo was always known as a wonderful post … Read more

by Carl Mirra The author, who teaches American Studies, assesses President Bush’s approach to foreign policy determination from a fresh and unusual viewpoint — the theological — and he traces the historical background for such an approach. Certainly it is … Read more

Prospects and Problems
by Donald R. Noland

  The author is a former Argentine secretary of Foreign Commerce and vice president of the Central Bank of Argentina. This commentary follows upon his recent analysis in this journal, “Argentina: the New Kirchner Government.” The following may also be … Read more

The author, a retired career diplomat, served as minister-counselor for political affairs at the U. S. embassy in Ottawa during the mid-1990s and has kept a close interest in Canadian politics. Mr. Jones has published previously on the topic in … Read more

What about the French, their diplomacy, their diplomats, their Government’s attitudes toward the United States? American Diplomacy is pleased to publish this ground breaking study of French diplomacy based on interviews* with American diplomats going back fifty years. — Assoc. … Read more

In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute last April and an article in the July/ August issue ofForeign Policy former U. S. Congressman Newt Gingrich criticized the State Department and the Foreign Service and proposed substantial reforms along with an … Read more

Dr. Abrahamson argues that the world must take seriously the threat of Muslim- inspired terrorism and aid the United States and Great Britain in the fight against Islamist terrorists bent upon global religious dominance.—Ed. “Most Muslims are not fundamentalists, and … Read more

In this informative, detailed analysis, the political scientist author combines commentary on recent political dynamics with a look back at the imprint the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres between the Allies and Turkey had on the future of that nation and … Read more

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Lugar argues that it is time to stop nickel and diming our diplomatic corps. In this article, reprinted with permission from the Foreign Service Journal, he argues that a strong, reinvigorated State Department is a, … Read more

The author, a retired U. S. Foreign Service officer, sets forth a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the terrorism phenomenon, one that repays a careful reading. Without defending terrorist acts in moral terms, Nicolson raises questions about their efficacy and … Read more

Chaos theory, this editor has learned, is the qualitative study in mathematics and physics of unstable, non periodic behavior in deterministic nonlinear active systems. So there you have it. Chaos, then, is a state of uncertainty in a system that … Read more