May 2022

Remembering Madeleine Albright and the Community of Freedom

Commentary

Putin’s Challenge to NATO and the Global Enterprise by Thomas McNamara

Europe at War by Robert Cox

Was NATO Expansion Really the Cause of Putin’s Invasion? by Ken Moskowitz

Don’t Leave the Russian People Behind by Renee Earle

America, You Better Believe That Africa Matters by Charles Ray

Democracy in Africa is Like a Flashlight without Batteries by Mark G. Wentling

Eyewitness

Telling America’s Story in Communist Times by Jonathan Rickert

The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection: A National Treasure by Heather Ashe

Dubai Expo Pavilions Put Public Diplomacy Front and Center by Kyla Denwood and Spencer Cox

ADST Moments in Diplomatic History

“If Putin gets away with Crimea, eastern Ukraine will be next” – a perspective from 2014. https://adst.org/if-putin-gets-away-with-the-seizure-of-crimea-then-eastern-ukraine-will-be-next/

The consul general in Kyiv in the early 1990s recounts the development of a newly independent nation, including control over Crimea. https://adst.org/2014/03/ukraines-push-for-independence/

National Archives

In late 1979, the Chernobyl power plant was visited by the Kiev Advance Party (KAP), American diplomats working on opening the U.S. consulate general in that city.

Links

U.S.-Indo-Pacific Strategy 2022
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/U.S.-Indo-Pacific-Strategy.pdf

The worldwide ascendancy and global sphere of influence of the United States is under challenge from its designated adversaries, particularly Russia and China.
https://chasfreeman.net/about-spheres-of-influence/

In Memoriam

Madeleine Albright, first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.
https://share.america.gov/remembering-madeleine-albright-fierce-defender-human-rights/