Trauma in Togo
by Mark Wentling In April 1991, while I was serving in Lomé, Togo as the USAID Representative for Togo and Benin, protests in Lomé against the dictatorial regime of President Eyadéma reached the boiling point. One night, President Eyadéma’s barbaric … Read more
Foreign Service Resignations: Why I Stayed
by Christopher Datta
Murder in Equatorial Guinea: A Foreign Service Urban Legend
by Mark L. Asquino
The Rwandan Genocide Revisited
by Robert E. Gribbin
Books about Rwanda
Compiled by Robert Gribbin
President George H.W. Bush: the Man and the Statesman
Edited by Thomas E. McNamara
Terrorism, Betrayal & Resilience
Review by Frances Duffy
Book : Terrorism, Betrayal & Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings by Prudence Bushnell
USIA Films that failed in Africa
by Bob Baker
First Ambassador with Peace Corps Experience: Parker Borg
by John Coyne
U.S. Ambassadors who Served in the Peace Corps
Editor’s note: This is an unofficial list compiled by John Coyne. Please send any additions or corrections to editor@americandiplomacy.org.
Leveraging Diplomacy for Managing Scientific Challenges
An Opportunity to Navigate the Future of Science
by David P. Hajjar and Steven G. Greenbaum
Operational Public Diplomacy: The Enduring and the New
by Donald M. Bishop
How the Peace Corps Transformed the Foreign Service
by John Coyne
Getting to Know Jane Goodall
by Ralph Bresler
Books of Interest Fall 2018
Near Abroad, Thailand, The Road to Unfreedom, US Counterterrorism, In Praise of Blood, The Darkening Web, China’s Great Wall of Debt, The Peace Makers
Introduction from Peace Works: America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World
by Rick Barton
Winds of Change
Chapter 6 of The Atlanticists: A Story of American Diplomacy
by Ken Weisbrode
Diplomacy on the Rocks
by Ambassador (ret.) Barbara K. Bodine At Minneapolis Council on Foreign Relations Minneapolis, MN November 21, 2017 The News You Have Not Heard On my way here I heard a news report that the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman … Read more
Africa and the Politics of Possibility
by Louis S. Segesvary, Ph.D. To entice tourists and quell the fears of the naïve, Africa is often presented in travel books as a magical destination, where sweeping savannahs and imposing mountain ranges serve as a backdrop to an exotic … Read more
Angola – an ambassador’s daily diary
Angola – O dia-a-dia de um embaixador Angola – an ambassador’s daily diary by Ambassador Antonio Pinto da France Edicao de Livros e Revistas, Lisbon 2004 Translation by Ed Marks Selections From the preface I was the third Portuguese ambassador … Read more
