November 2025
Commentary
History Matters by Robert E. Hunter
Iran: A Report on the DACOR Bacon House Foundation’s 2025 Annual Conference by Keith McCormick
What You Can Learn Standing on a Street Corner by Raymond F. Smith
Eyewitness
Not Your Average Visitor: Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy in London and Bucharest by Jonathan Rickert
The Student Corner
Vietnam’s Foreign Service Legacy: Shaping Trump’s 2025 Diplomacy by Jackson Simmons-Furlati
Moments in Diplomacy
(Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training)
In this link to his oral history, Kempton Jenkins recounts Embassy Moscow’s involvement in the 1961 Berlin crisis, in particular Ambassador Thompson’s firm rebuff of threats from Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko.
https://adst.org/2015/06/the-berlin-crisis-of-1961/
Links
A recent article in the Foreign Service Journal describes the legislation that established the Foreign Service in its current form and the challenges it faces from actions of the Trump administration.
https://afsa.org/foreign-service-act-1980-pivotal-moment
From Our Archives
As we look ahead to the 250 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence next year, we offer some articles from our archives that explore our foreign affairs history, starting with the turn of this century.
America and the World at the Dawn of a New Century February 2000
On American Diplomacy and the Disorderly Oscillation of World Orders August 2008
An American Empire: An essay on the United States as a Global Power June 2004
The Conduct of American Diplomacy April 2000
While America Sleeps March 2001