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The Everyday Importance of International Relations: Walk a Mile in Your Own Shoes

November 2020

by Charles Ray

When Diplomacy’s Reputation Needs Tending: Some Advice from the Past

November 2020

by Ken Weisbrode

It Is Up to the State Department to Reimagine a Better Institution

November 2020

by Tianna Spears

Nixon’s Watergate Scandal and NATO

November 2020

by Bob Baker

Negotiating the U.S.-Romania Consular Convention

November 2020

by Jonathan B. Rickert

Broadening the Foreign Service: The Role of Diplomats in Residence

August 2020

by June Carter Perry

Statement on Diversity and Diplomacy from Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley

August 2020

Statement by Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
June 17, 2020

Aligning Venus and Mars: Striking the Appropriate Balance Between Diplomacy and Defense in International Affairs

August 2020

by Charles Ray

Inspector General Steve Linick, a Deep State Conspirator?

August 2020

by Ken Moskowitz

The Cardinal Sins of Diplomatic Political Analysis

August 2020

by Raymond Smith

Spike Lee Brings Back Vietnam Memories of Race and the Bond in Combat

August 2020

by Kenneth M. Quinn

The Impolite American Consul: A Memoir of the 1966 Buddhist Struggle Movement in Hué

August 2020

by James R. Bullington

Low Profile in the Philippines

August 2020

by Morton Holbrook III

President Bush’s 2005 Mongolia Visit

August 2020

by Pamela J. Slutz and Brian L. Goldbeck

Living with Africa for a Lifetime

August 2020

by Mark G. Wentling

What America Has Lost

August 2020

by Christopher Datta

Stars with Stripes

August 2020

Reviewed by Christopher Murray

Diplomats’ Duties in a Time of Disease

May 2020

The following accounts are excerpted from news stories and social media posts.

Beer-Pong Diplomacy: A Diplomat’s Guide to Drinking in China

February 2020

by Derek Sandhaus

Ralph J. Bunche – U.N. Mediator in the Middle East and Nobel Laureate

February 2020

by Renee M. Earle

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Picks from 25 Years

To mark our 25th anniversary, we spotlight past articles about diplomatic practice and challenges facing the State Department

Benjamin Franklin: American Diplomacy Traditions (2007)

American Diplomatic Practice Redefined (1996)

The Work of Diplomacy (2002)

The Other Side of Powell’s Record (2006)

Diplomacy as Risk Management (2018)

Relearning the Art of Nation State Diplomacy (2018)

Diplomatic Readiness (2010)

Musicians and Diplomats (2007)

The Infrastructure of Diplomacy (2000)

Ten Principles of Operational Diplomacy (2014)

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