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
Spreading Americana in a Post-Soviet World
August 2022
by Robert Baker
Playing the Kinship Card in Communist Bulgaria
August 2022
by Jonathan Rickert
Portuguese Diplomacy in Newark, New Jersey
August 2022
by Jorge Marinho, Júlio Ventura, Guilherme Guimarães
Telling America’s Story in Communist Times
May 2022
by Jonathan Rickert During my three tours of duty in communist Eastern Europe (USSR 1960s, Romania 1970s, and Bulgaria 1980s), U.S. diplomats were inhibited in their contacts with local citizens. Most of us spoke the local languages and longed to … Read more