New items for November 2019

A Lifetime of Diplomatic Engagement
By Paul Foldi

by Alon Ben-Meir

(Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State)
Review by Jon P. Dorschner

Review by Donald Camp
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century By George Packer

Review by Frances Duffy
Book : Terrorism, Betrayal & Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings by Prudence Bushnell

by Larry Schwartz
Adapted from Newberry Series Lecture at Dacor-Bacon House
Washington, D.C., July 13, 2018

by Mike Anderson

by Donald M. Bishop

Review by J. R. Bullington
Peace Works: America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World. By Rick Barton. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2018. Pages: 312. ISBN-13: 978-1538113004 and ISBN-10: 1538113007

by Thomas E. McNamara

by Rick Barton

by Amb. Michael W. Cotter (ret.) The media is full of information about the conflict in Afghanistan. Some of the coverage supports the Trump administration’s plan to increase the U.S. military presence in that country; some of it is opposed. … Read more

Chapter 6 of The Atlanticists: A Story of American Diplomacy
by Ken Weisbrode

by Anthony C. E. Quainton TFED Chapel Hill, North Carolina November 30, 2017 These days Generals are thick on the ground in Washington. Not only is the Secretary of Defense a general, but so too are the current and former … Read more

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

Review by Renee M. Earle
To the Secretary: Leaked Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect. ISBN 978-0-393-24658-2. W.W. Norton & Company. Mary Thompson-Jones

Interview covers:  Biography, Vietnam, Kissinger, Paris Peace Talks The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project Ambassador John D. Negroponte Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial Interview date: February 11, 2000 Copyright 2017 ADST https://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Negroponte-John-D.pdf INTERVIEW … Read more

by Ronald E. Neumann, President, American Academy of Diplomacy December 5, 2017 The article first appeared in National Interest and can also be accessed by clicking here. Permission to reprint courtesy of National Interest. For ten months the State Department has … Read more

by Hans N. Tuch Currently there is no  institutional functional or operational relationship between the  Department of State and the Voice of America, a relationship that  served  the successful conduct of U.S. public diplomacy for many years—from the early 1950s … Read more