Category: Commentary

The Case of George Horton by Ismini and Chris Lamb The Department of State recently set a useful precedent by honoring Archer Blood, the U.S. consul general in Dhaka during Pakistan’s brutal suppression of free elections in East Pakistan (now … Read more

by Mark G. Wentling Reducing poverty has been at the heart of U.S. foreign assistance in dozens of low-income countries for more than a half-century. Despite U.S. foreign policy objectives, much work, and hundreds of billions of assistance dollars expended, … Read more

A Journey Through Health Diplomacy By Lisa Rotondo In September 2001, just days before 9/11, I arrived in Pissila, Burkina Faso for my Peace Corps assignment. I was eager to get to work helping my new home community do surveillance … Read more

Commentary, Eyewitness, From the Archives, Book Review, Books of Interest, Links, In Memoriam

by Charles Ray

by Andrew Goodman

by Mark G. Pomar

by Robert Cox

Commentary, Eyewitness, From the Archives, Links, In Memoriam

by Raymond Smith

by Dick Virden

by Imad K. Harb

by Kenneth Quinn

by Keith McCormick and Emma W. Sandifer As relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) loom ever larger for the U.S., DACOR’s annual conference in 2022 focused on “Balancing Competing Interests in U.S. Relations With China.” The Washington-based organization … Read more

Commentary, Eyewitness, and books

Thoughts on Diplomacy from Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Editor’s note: In the introduction to her book “Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir”, former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch comments on the practice and importance of diplomacy. Excerpted by permission. Diplomacy is … Read more

by Thomas E. McNamara

by Roman Napoli

by Mark G. Wentling

by Renee Earle