Category: Commentary

by Michael P. Noonan

by Ivan Shearer

by Scott L. Silliman

This is American Diplomacy’s roll of honor.

by Laurence Pope

La comunidad internacional puede impulsat un processo que no comienza por Gustavo Valdivieso The author of the following analysis, commenting on an article by U. S. Ambassador Robert E. White in an issue of American Diplomacy entitled “The Wrong War,” … Read more

by Ralph D. Sawyer Given the recent developments in relations between the United States and China, we at American Diplomacy thought it would be interesting to publish again, especially for those who might have missed it, Ralph Sawyer’s insightful study … Read more

by Edward Marks

by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan

by Brenda Brown Schoonover

by John W. McDonald

by Eugene D. Schmiel

The Secretary’s Open Forum on”Black Diplomacy”

Manhattan Project Scientists and the Use of the Atomic Bomb by Peter N. Kirstein The author, looking at primary sources in a new light, reaches a conclusion that challenges received wisdom about the attitude of the original atomic scientists on … Read more

A retired senior American diplomat, the author held the position of minister-counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa for four years during the mid-1990s and has followed the Canadian scene closely since then. In this detailed analysis … Read more

by Francis P. Sempa Often we remark that the convert exhibits an unusually devoted commitment to his or her new cause. Such evidently was the case with the subject of this essay. Remembered as an anticommunist American intellectual and dedicated … Read more

A sympathetic world at first greeted news in late August of successful political negotiations in neighboring Djibouti with pleasure. Judging from news reports, Somalia seemed at last on the path toward national reconciliation and recovery — long overdue after a … Read more

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