By Walter A. McDougall American Diplomacy takes pleasure in offering to its readership the text of Professor McDougall’s thoughtful keynote address at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s annual meeting held in Philadelphia in November 1999. Several people, including our host … Continued

Beginning a Diplomatic Career: Embassy Panama, 1959-1961
by Peter Bridges

por Elvio Baldinelli “As long as the U.S. aspires to be a European power and extends a security guarantee to key European countries. . . it will be inevitably concerned about major political and economic developments in Eastern Europe.” Ronald … Continued

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History By John Lewis Gaddis (Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1997. 425 pages. $14.99 paper.) American Diplomacy published an essay by Professor John Lewis Gaddis titled “The New Cold War History” in its Autumn 1998 issue … Continued

Use Moral Example Instead of ‘Spine’ by Nancy  Mitchell Nancy Mitchell is assistant professor of history at North Carolina State University. Her study “The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin American, 1895-1914” is forthcoming from the University … Continued

Indecision Is Our Fatal Flaw by Richard H. Kohn Richard Kohn, a member of the Editorial Board of American Diplomacy, is professor of history and director of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense at the University of North Carolina … Continued

The author served as U.S. ambassador to Guinea-Bissau and as deputy representative to ECOSOC at the UN in New York during his more than thirty years in the U.S. Foreign Service. See his “Vietnam Reconsidered” in Vol. III, No. 1 … Continued

The Political-Military Army Officer: Soldier Scholar or Cocktail Commando? By Norvell B. De Atkine “While the military culture has evolved over the years and we now have an Army almost unrecognizable to pre-Vietnam war veterans, one issue has remained pretty … Continued

Author Kenneth Stammerman, shown above with US troops at Dhahran,Saudi Arabia, retired in 1994 as a senior U.S. Foreign Service officer after a career spanning twenty-seven years, much of that time dealing with the Middle East. He took up his … Continued

David Work is executive director of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. POISON EXPORTS: The U.S. has cast a blind eye to poison drug tragedies By David R. Work “It’s an international scandal that, over fifty years later, dealers in … Continued

by Matthew M. Oyos JIMMY CARTER HOPED that his presidency would a bring fresh start to America. He vowed to lend a new openness and honesty to government to help heal the deep and festering wounds that the Watergate affair … Continued