Celebrating American Diplomacy
by Senator Chris Van Hollen
Colin Powell’s Legacy
by W. Robert Pearson
Transforming Cambodia’s “Killing Fields” into Farm Fields: American Diplomacy and Combatting Genocide
by Kenneth Quinn
American Leadership and a Global Offensive Against COVID
by John Blaney and Christopher Datta
Mentoring Partnership Aims to Boost Diversity at State Department
by Tom Brannan
A Soviet Diplomat’s Memories of Beijing 1973-1975
Translated by Simon Schuchat
Why Nation-Building Matters
Review by Renee M Earle
Why Nation Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States by Keith W. Mines
Books of Interest
The Gun, The Ship, and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World By Linda Colley
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad By Michela Wrong
From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party By Tony Saich
Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice By Izabela Steflja and Jessica Trisko Darden
Under Beijing’s Shadow: Southeast Asia’s China Challenge By Murray Hiebert
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order By Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright
25th Anniversary Webinar
“How Does U.S. Diplomacy Benefit Americans?”
Playback of webinar, contributor information
Webinar Contributors
Biographical information on participants in the Oct 2021 Webinar
Register for Webinar: “How Does U.S. Diplomacy Benefit Americans?”
Virtual discussion presented by the American Diplomacy Journal and the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
August 2021
Commentary, Eyewitness, reviews, books of interest, links
The Challenge of Anarchy: Introduction
Increased refugee flows from the southern hemispheres and the Middle East impact not only immediate neighbors; but threaten political dialogue, economics and security in Europe, Russia, China. and the United States.
How can our national governments and the international community successfully address this challenge?
On American Diplomacy and the Disorderly Oscillation of World Orders
by Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
A Collapsing World?
by György Schöpflin
Towards a New Normalcy?
by Robert Cox
Dealing with Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
by Herman J. Cohen
When Anarchy Spills Across Borders
by Edward Marks and Marshall Adair
