Category: Commentary
AFSANET: State Vice President Report
What Reporters Missed in that GAO Report on Visas
AFSA
The Role of the International Community in the Protection of Venezuelan Democracy
by Adolfo R. Taylhardat
Jefferson & Saddam: A Personal Statement
by Lucian Heichler The author of the following observations spent thirty-two years in the U. S. Foreign Service, retiring in 1986 as a minister-counselor. Other than Washington, he was posted in Berlin, Yaounde, Kinshasa, Rome, Bern, Brussels (NATO), and Ankara.—Ed. … Read more
Is There Still a West?
by William Anthony Hay An intriguing question that Dr. Hay poses: Is the “West” still a valid organizing principle in the conduct of international relations, or has that concept given way to unilateralist tendencies even among nations professing multilateralism? Read … Read more
American Diplomacy’s Essay Contest
Question:
What is the place of the war on terrorism in formulating American foreign policy?
An Essay by Jesse Tampio
What September 11 Taught Us
by John Hillen The following commentary, timely in the extreme, first appeared on 9/11/2002 in the “National Review Online”(www.nationalreview.com). We are able to present it through the courtesy of “National Review” and the author, along with the good offices of … Read more
La Crisis Politica y Economica in El Cono Sur de America
The Political and Economic Crisis in the Americas’ Southern Cone
por Elvio Baldinelli
The Arabic Language
Its Place in the Middle East’s Culture and Politics
by Curtis F. Jones