Category: Commentary

Multilateralism and the UN A Modest Proposal for University Training The proponent, a retired United Nations official with fifteen years service abroad in South Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, has long had a professional interest in international affairs. He retired … Read more

By J. Craig Barker The author addresses, in the Chilean context, human rights questions and international law bearing on heads of state. Given the current conflict in the Balkans, clearly the topic could come to have have wider interest on … Read more

The author is Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. This essay, adapted from a special issue of Orbis (Spring 1998) on the topic “Faith and Statecraft,” appeared in the Foreign Policy Research Institute WIRE of March … Read more

Ambassador James Bullington’s years in the career Foreign Service included three tours of duty in Vietnam. The following is the text of a speech he delivered to the Rotary Club of Norfolk, Virginia on June 23, 1999. ~ Ed “But … Read more

por Elvio Baldinelli “As long as the U.S. aspires to be a European power and extends a security guarantee to key European countries. . . it will be inevitably concerned about major political and economic developments in Eastern Europe.” Ronald … Read more

“As long as the U.S. aspires to be a European power and extends a security guarantee to key European countries. . . it will be inevitably concerned about major political and economic developments in Eastern Europe.” Ronald D. Asmus International … Read more

by Keith Moon “Yeltsin himself came to fame in the old Soviet system when, in 1974 as the regional Communist leader in Sverdlovsk (now renamed Ekaterinburg), he ordered the razing of the Ipatiev House where the last Romanov tsar and … Read more

    by Sorin Lungu INTRODUCTION Among the myriad complex issues raised by the end of the Cold War in Europe, the most confusing and frustrating by far have concerned the elaboration of an institutional security system consistent with the … Read more

“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

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

Albright’s Position is Hard to Justify by David Thornton Dr. Thornton is director of government studies in the Department of Government and History at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina. He earned a PhD. in international relations at the University … Read more

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

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

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

The author served as U.S. ambassador to Guinea-Bissau and as deputy representative to ECOSOC at the UN in New York during his more than thirty years in the U.S. Foreign Service. See his “Vietnam Reconsidered” in Vol. III, No. 1 … Read more

The Political-Military Army Officer: Soldier Scholar or Cocktail Commando? By Norvell B. De Atkine “While the military culture has evolved over the years and we now have an Army almost unrecognizable to pre-Vietnam war veterans, one issue has remained pretty … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy AN INTRODUCTION: What Sort of “Venture”? • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION • PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more