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Some Notes on US Policy Toward Iraq

April 1999

“The future stability of the Middle East and the vital interests of the United States are in jeopardy as direct results of U.S. policy on Iraq.” I HAVE SERIOUS DOUBTS ABOUT THE U.S. POLICY toward Iraq. These doubts are based … Read more

Conference on “Conflict in Africa”

April 1999

SPECIAL REPORT The author of this account has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies since mid-1997 and also teaches history at North Carolina State University. She earned a doctorate in history at Duke University in … Read more

Bombs for Peace: Misreading Kosovo

April 1999

Bombs for Peace? MISREADING KOSOVO A Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute, Dr. Radu has written extensively on Balkan questions. See also his “Terrorism in Latin America: Learning from Lima” in Volume II, Number 2, 4th of July 1997,of … Read more

February 1999

On Professionalism Among American Ambassadors by Henry Mattox As the philosopher had it, “However much thou art read in theory, if thou hast no practice, thou art ignorant.” THIS OBSERVATION, WHILE AN OVERSTATEMENT, reflects much truth, whether in an intellectual … Read more

El Caso Baltimore

February 1999

Editor’s Comment — Especially for American Diplomacy , Ambassador Sanz has drawn from his study with the same title published in 1998*, to provide this brief summary of his research. The little-remembered Baltimore incident provides the setting for an intriguing … Read more

Conference on Conflict in Africa

February 1999

Conference on Conflict in Africa On February 5-6, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies will hold a conference at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill on conflict in Africa. Our purpose is to gather a distinguished group of scholars from … Read more

Conducting Diplomacy in the Age of Terrorism

September 1998

Author Kenneth Stammerman, shown above with US troops at Dhahran,Saudi Arabia, retired in 1994 as a senior U.S. Foreign Service officer after a career spanning twenty-seven years, much of that time dealing with the Middle East. He took up his … Read more

TISS Conference Report

September 1998

G. Thomas Goodnight has taught in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University since 1975. In the research field of argumentation his interests include foreign policy issues, rhetoric, criticism, and social theory. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from … Read more

Southeast Asia Crisis: Background and Current Assessment

September 1998

SOUTHEAST ASIA CRISIS: Background and Current Assessment By Ronald D. Palmer Southeast Asia encompasses ten nations, from Burma on the mainland in the west, to the 17,500-island nation of Indonesia to the southeast. Need more be said to stress the … Read more

Centre for UN Management Accountability (CUNMA) Makes Its Debut

September 1998

American Diplomacy takes pleasure in making available to its readers an announcement released by the newly formed Centre for UN Management Accountability in Geneva, Switzerland. ~ Ed. CENTRE FOR UN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTABILTY (CUNMA) Makes Its Debut Geneva, 28 September. Edward … Read more