The Invasion of Venezuela
A Serious Mistake and a Rupture of Traditional US Policies
by Thomas E. McNamara
The Tarnished Gold of the Amazon Women: Anita Ekberg on Trinidad
by Jonathan Rickert
The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power
Reviewed by Logan M. Williams
The Monroe Doctrine After 200 Years: A Strategic Hinge Period in American History
by Thomas E McNamara
Retail Politics in Trinidad and Tobago
by Jonathan B. Rickert
August 2022
Commentary, Eyewitness, and books
Our National Devaluation of Diplomacy
by Thomas E. McNamara
Portuguese Diplomacy in Newark, New Jersey
by Jorge Marinho, Júlio Ventura, Guilherme Guimarães
Where in the World Is Barbados?
by Jonathan B. Rickert
Celebrating American Diplomacy
by Senator Chris Van Hollen
American Leadership and a Global Offensive Against COVID
by John Blaney and Christopher Datta
Is Diplomacy Back? Making the Case to the American People
by Mary Thompson-Jones
The U.S. Government Was Not Adequately Prepared for Coronavirus at Home or Abroad
by Ambassador [ret] Jimmy Kolker
Filming Manhole Covers in Chile
by Susan Clyde
American speaker programs were long a staple of US Information Agency (USIA) programs overseas. Not all went as planned.
November 2019
New items for November 2019
A Free Trade Agreement Could Benefit the U.S.-Brazil Trade Relationship
by Peter Sufrin
America’s Unipolar Moment of Renewal or Collapse?
by Ofer Israeli
A Media Journey: from Edward R. Murrow to Fake News
by Dick Virden
How Summer Adventures Become Diplomacy
by Michael McCarry
Raising the Flag: America’s First Envoys in Faraway Lands
Review by John M. Handley
Raising the Flag: America’s First Envoys in Faraway Lands, by Peter D. Eicher: Potomac Books, 2018, 370 pages with end-notes and index. ISBN 978-1-61234-970-1.