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 … Read more

By Edward D. Marks In 1684 the Treaty of Westphalia brought to a close eighty years of religious wars in Europe with new rules of international law establishing the modern state system. The foundation of this system is the sovereign … Read more

By Gene Schmiel James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire By Edward P. Crapol (Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 2000. Pp. xx, 157. $50 cloth; $17.95 paper.) When the most respected biography of James G. Blaine was written in 1935, the author … Read more

Somalia as a case study for a ‘commerce-based’ alternative Revising the U.N. Trusteeship System — Will It Work? By Harry A. Inman and Walter Gary Sharp, Sr. The authors, both attorneys with international experience, bring to bear on their analysis … Read more

Multilateralism and the UN A Modest Proposal for University Training The proponent, a retired United Nations official with fifteen years service abroad in South Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, has long had a professional interest in international affairs. He retired … Read more

The author is Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. This essay, adapted from a special issue of Orbis (Spring 1998) on the topic “Faith and Statecraft,” appeared in the Foreign Policy Research Institute WIRE of March … Read more

  (. . . long years ago) by Carl R. Fritz VENTS LAST YEAR IN Afghanistan, particularly the dropping of U.S. bombs on suspected terrorist camps, have moved me to recall a visit I made to that country back in … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

  by James L. Huskey “I counted and identified bodies in a strange déjà vu of the Tiananmen body count. It was surrealistic as colleagues came running to tell me this colleague was alive . . . or that colleague was dead. . . . “We … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy AN INTRODUCTION: What Sort of “Venture”? • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION • PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

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 … Read more

Like Americans in general, our contributing authors differ sharply over Middle East issues and what the US role should be in the region. Here, we present two contrasting commentaries by respected authorities. Then we open the floor for debate in … Read more