by Norvell de Atkine

HERE ARE MANY BAD WAYS to conduct foreign policy, but surely one of the worst is to take a complex challenge and reduce it to a single issue. Colombia is not just the place that feeds America’s voracious appetite for … Read more

  ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT CLINTON SEEMS unaware of it, the $1.6 billion he is requesting to fight coca production in Colombia amounts to intervention in another country’s civil war. Neither the president nor the secretary of state has given the American … Read more

by Anthony C.E. Quainton   The author brings to bear his thirty-eight years of experience in diplomacy to issue a strong call for greater recognition in the ongoing Presidential campaign of the role of diplomacy in the conduct of U.S. … Read more

“If Western diplomacy has a role to play it will have to be discreet and carefully considered, always bearing in mind that the governing rule of diplomats, like that of doctors, must be ‘first, do no harm.’” by Monteagle Stearns* … Read more

American Diplomacy takes pride in presenting a major study by the distinguished American political scientist Herbert Weiss on the complex and important issue of stability, or the lack thereof, in the Congo. Few, if any, scholars have a better grasp … Read more

“Asad . . . rule[d] with an iron hand for thirty years. This clearly was a noteworthy achievement for a member of a disdained community that numbers only ten percent of the population in a country that had experienced some twelve … Read more

The author, a frequent contributor of articles and commentary to this journal (see in particular his “Religion and Romance in Wartime Vietnam” in the Summer 1998 issue of American Diplomacy), holds that on the basis of his experience, the Vietnam … Read more

“For many Pakistanis, their nuclear capacity has given them confidence that they can be more aggressive on Kashmir.” by Harry G. Barnes, Jr.* ET ME BEGIN WITH SOME personal recollections as a sort of scene setter. In the early 1980s, … Read more

by Stephanie Smith Kinney

The Pity of War By Niall Ferguson (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. 606. $30 cloth.) Europe Sans War, 1914: Kaiser Bill and John Bull As Co-Hegemons by John H. Maurer Editor’s Note: Historiographical debate concerning the origins of the … Read more

EVENTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of the Congo since early June have added to the general despair for Africa’s future. Uganda and Rwanda, two governments closely allied with the United States, have gone to war against each other in the … Read more

by Amb. William C. Harrop

The author, president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, assesses the Syrian leader over the three decades he exercised power. Developing the theme of the subtitle to his article, Dr. Sicherman makes clear how, and in what respects, Assad in … Read more

by Amb. Denis McLean

COLLECTIVE SECURITY, POSSE OR GLOBAL COP The U.S. and Global Security at the Turn of the Century by Erik Jensen THE WARBURG CHAIR in International Relations was endowed by Joan M. Warburg, herself a Simmons alumna, jointly in her own … Read more

by Ronald D. Palmer BALANCE AND HARMONY ARE HIGHLY prized values in complex Indonesia, a state with more than 7,000 islands, 200 million people and hundreds of dialects and cultures where 87 percent of the population is Muslim, but where … Read more

by Denis McLean

The author, a senior U.S. diplomat now retired, sheds light on the background to some of the negotiations involved in the thirty-five-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) that resulted in the August 1975 Helsinki Accords. Mr.Stefan participated … Read more

Sir Kieran, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, delivered the Keynote address at the Warburg 2000 Conference luncheon at Simmons College February 29.   I SPEND MOST OF MY DAYS not as a cop or a posse member, but as … Read more