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Category: Eyewitness

Death in the Consulate

May 2024

by Donald Kursch

Recognizing a Century of Service and Sacrifice by America’s Diplomats

May 2024

by Tom Selinger

Russian Propaganda Efforts: Historical Continuities Accompany Technological Changes

February 2024

by John Katzka

Ambassadorial Accreditation: The Romanian Ambassador Presents His Credentials in Washington

February 2024

by Jonathan Rickert

I Didn’t Join the French Foreign Legion, but It Helped Rescue Me in Chad

November 2023

by James R. Bullington

The Tarnished Gold of the Amazon Women: Anita Ekberg on Trinidad

November 2023

by Jonathan Rickert

Doing More with Less, or a Stunt?

August 2023

by William Harrop

Secret Baseball in China

August 2023

by W. Robert Pearson

A Mongoose Walked into a Narcotics Den…

August 2023

by Ed Marks

“La Grande Bouffe” or, Now and Then Diplomatic Life Does Include a Swanky Dinner Party

August 2023

by Jonathan Rickert

Glasnost – A Bulgarian View

May 2023

by Jonathan Rickert

Where the “Marshall Plan” Became the Organization for European Economic Cooperation

May 2023

by Renee M Earle

Would You Say No to Shirley Temple on Thanksgiving?

May 2023

by Raymond F. Smith

Reagan in China: Don’t Say Anything about the Turkeys

February 2023

by Beatrice Camp

A Master Class in Diplomacy

February 2023

by Jonathan Rickert

Pan Am 103 and the Birth of “No Double Standard”

February 2023

by Richard Gilbert

Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev and the 1991 Coup

November 2022

by Renee Earle

Retail Politics in Trinidad and Tobago

November 2022

by Jonathan B. Rickert

Language and Cultural Immersion Build Effective Communication

November 2022

by Bruce Byers

Restarting Educational Exchanges with China after the Cultural Revolution

August 2022

by John C. Thomson

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American Diplomatic Practice Redefined (1996)

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Diplomacy as Risk Management (2018)

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Musicians and Diplomats (2007)

The Infrastructure of Diplomacy (2000)

Ten Principles of Operational Diplomacy (2014)

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