Category: Special Reports

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?

by Chas W. Freeman, Jr.

by György Schöpflin

by Robert Cox

 by Herman J. Cohen

by Edward Marks and Marshall Adair

Although State does not track former PCVs in the department, an average of 5% of new Foreign Service Officers in the last four entering classes reported Peace Corps experience and more than 60 former volunteers have served as U.S. ambassadors.

by Gerald Kamens One morning in March 1959, a top secret policy paper appeared on my boss’s desk at Dwight Eisenhower’s Bureau of the Budget—later reborn as the Office of Management and Budget. Its subject: How to counter the Soviet … Read more

by John Coyne

by John Coyne

Editor’s note: This is an unofficial list compiled by John Coyne. Please send any additions or corrections to editor@americandiplomacy.org.

by John Coyne

by Robert Earle

by William Sommers

by Jerry Norris One night into my assignment to La Plata, Huila I was reading by the dim light of a 40-watt light bulb a banned copy of La Violencia en Colombia. I was riveted by its 1948 description of … Read more

by Rhoda Brooks The Peace Corps is fifty years old; an anniversary that dazzles me! I was just 26 years old and my husband, Earle, 28, when we joined fifty years ago. Now I am in my seventies and Earle … Read more

The Peace Corps Today: Celebrating 50 years of Service Past, Present , and Future Reflections on Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps Director Extrodinaire and the 25th Anniversary of the Peace Corps September 1986 To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the U. … Read more

Changing Worlds I had grown up in Halethorpe in Baltimore County, Maryland, in a predominately African-American neighborhood.  It was a small community where everyone knew their neighbors, many who were family and where my great grandfather and his business partners … Read more

by Brenda Brown Schoonover

by Brenda Brown Schoonover Former Peace Corps Volunteer, Philippines Group One (1961-1963) Since his death on January 18, 2011 at the age of 95, a great deal has been written and spoken about Robert Sargent Shriver, an exemplary American who … Read more