Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide Debuts New Website Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide, formerly the Association of American Foreign Service Women, is proud to announce the debut of its new web site. Foreign Service Lifelines, the … Continued

The following information was submitted to American Diplomacy by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, a consortium of faculty members at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, all located in the … Continued

     READERS WILL NOTE THAT American Diplomacy this issue includes two reviews of books in the international relations field, one by Dr. Rorin M. Platt of Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the other by Richard Schenck, a retired U.S. … Continued

In which he identifies by name and position the journal’s parent organization Board of Directors, with special reference to additions since the journal’s founding in 1996. IN PREVIOUS ISSUES—Volume II, Numbers 1 and 2—we provided biographic information on the nine … Continued

EDITOR’S CORNER – “RIGHT TIMING is in all things the most important factor” Hesiod, the Greek farmer-poet observed some 2,700 years ago. If timing is indeed everything in life, this includes even the world of electronic publishing, an endeavor which … Continued

Like WCPE, We Launch a Campaign to Improve Our Signal I’ M A BIG OPERA FAN, so every Saturday afternoon during opera season I tune in faithfully to my favorite classical music station, WCPE in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and enjoy … Continued

American Diplomacy takes pleasure in making available to its readers an internship announcement submitted by author and scholar Eugene Schmiel. (Be sure not to miss Dr. Schmiel’s piece entitled “Ms. Hearst, I Presume” in the current issue of this Journal). … Continued

FROM THE PUBLISHER ~ Frank Crigler is publisher of “American Diplomacy” and president of newly-formed non-profit corporation American Diplomacy Publishers. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. His biographic sketch was published in Vol. I, No. 3 of this journal. We … Continued

A Bit of Boasting . . .  Signs of Intelligent Life Out There! by Frank Crigler J o d i e   F o s t e r, the single-minded, highly unconventional astronomer in the film “Contact,” relies more heavily … Continued

Editorial Corner We believe it possibly useful and interesting for our readers to know something about the backgrounds of the members of American Diplomacy’s editorial review board and staff. Holding that thought, for what it may be worth, we have … Continued

EDITOR’S CORNER   Biographic Information (cont.) As the reader of these scrolled pages may have noticed, only a small band of colleagues make up the staff and Editorial Advisory Board of this journal. But as Seneca so wisely noted long … Continued

O ur readers will note, we hope, that in this ‘issue’ of American Diplomacy all three of our featured, more lengthy articles — those by Dick Kohn, Frank Crigler, and Curt Jones — take the form of essays rather than … Continued

by Henry E. Mattox