Tag: Africa
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
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
Global Adventures on Less-Traveled Roads—A Foreign Service Memoir
Review by Benjamin East
Global Adventures on Less-Traveled Roads—A Foreign Service Memoir by James R. Bullington. Published 2017. Create Space Independent Publishing. 334 pp ISBN: 10:1540790398
Ambassador L. Paul “Jerry” Bremer, III
from ADST
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Bremer-L.-Paul-1.pdf
Applying Diplomacy
by William Harrop When I arrived as Chief of Mission to the Republic of Guinea in May 1975, Sekou Touré, the father of “African Socialism”, had been president for 17 years. He had founded a repressive Communist dictatorship. Guinea was … Continued
Duty Calls
Chapter 1 of Dead Cow Road – Life on the Front Lines of an International Crisis by Mark Wentling The famine had already killed tens of thousands. The Somali landscape was littered with ragged lumps of human scraps. Death by … Continued
Africa’s Great Hunger Handicap
by Mark Wentling The hefty burden of widespread hunger prevents Africa from realizing its full potential. Accepting that good nutrition is the foundation of life and human progress, Africa is clearly falling behind other regions. As long as Africa remains … Continued
Angola Terrorist Report
by Robert Baker Until I did my report on the March, 1961 terrorist uprising in Angola, I had done well at my job as an intelligence analyst, especially at the hard slog of scanning thousands of pages of reports to … Continued
Getting Sick in Africa
by Bob Baker Malaria was like having a pain X-ray of all your bones, but after a fever bout, shaking chills diverted attention from your aching bones. I had taken all the anti-malaria pills but had evidently bumped into a … Continued