Insight and Analysis from Foreign Affairs Practitioners and Scholars
Established 1996 • Raymond F. Smith, Editor
by Gregory L. Garland Early Cold War legislation that still serves as the legal foundation for U.S. public diplomacy prohibits the Voice of America from disseminating information within the United States. This essay, by a Foreign Service public diplomacy specialist, … Read more
Last year the U.S. Foreign Service suffered a public relations disaster because of the widely reported “town hall meeting” at the State Department in which some Foreign Service Officers protested the prospect of being required to serve in Iraq. Eventually, volunteers were found to fill all the positions opening in 2008, but as is usually the case, the good news never overtook the bad.
The editor reviews Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s valedictory article in Foreign Affairs, and offers comments. by J. R. Bullington, Editor Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has published a somewhat precocious valedictory in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs. Entitled … Read more
by Henry E. Mattox Many Americans hoped and even expected that American military withdrawal from Iraq would be well underway by now, but instead we had the “surge.” Looking back to the time of U.S. emergence as a world power, … Read more
by David T. Jones “Counterterrorism is not a cocktail reception,” the author of this essay observes, yet the current debate over what constitutes torture and under what circumstances if any it might be justified “seems to be taking place in … Read more
Guest Editorial: Taking the King’s Shilling
by David T. Jones
Structures and Strategies Needed by Sam Holliday Defense Secretary Gates recently called for a build-up of American “soft power” instruments in order to better combat the long-term threats we face from Islamic extremists. In this essay, a frequent American … Read more