Tough Love and the Diplomacy of Foreign Assistance
by Mark G. Wentling
A New Face, But an Old Tactic: History Offers Clues on Stopping Russia’s African Advance
by Herman J. Cohen
Mission Strategic Plans: A Neglected Developmental Tool
By Mark G. Wentling
Coming to Grips with Poverty in Africa
by Mark G. Wentling Reducing poverty has been at the heart of U.S. foreign assistance in dozens of low-income countries for more than a half-century. Despite U.S. foreign policy objectives, much work, and hundreds of billions of assistance dollars expended, … Read more
The Guinea Worm, President Carter and Me
A Journey Through Health Diplomacy By Lisa Rotondo In September 2001, just days before 9/11, I arrived in Pissila, Burkina Faso for my Peace Corps assignment. I was eager to get to work helping my new home community do surveillance … Read more
Where the “Marshall Plan” Became the Organization for European Economic Cooperation
by Renee M Earle
Stepping Up Our Climate Diplomacy
by Charles Ray
Fighting Corruption in the Arab World Should Be a U.S. Priority
by Imad K. Harb
U.S.-China Agricultural Dialogue in Des Moines Shows Potential for Improving Relations During a Critical Period
by Kenneth Quinn
August 2022
Commentary, Eyewitness, and books
The Importance of Economic Interests in Foreign Assistance
by Roman Napoli
Restructuring Our Assistance in Least Developed Countries
by Mark G. Wentling
Don’t Leave the Russian People Behind
by Renee Earle
America, You Better Believe That Africa Matters
by Charles Ray
Democracy in Africa is Like a Flashlight without Batteries
by Mark G. Wentling
Pioneer Diplomacy in Newly Independent Kazakhstan
by Jackson McDonald
Launching USAID Programs in the New Independent States
by Desaix Myers
American Leadership and a Global Offensive Against COVID
by John Blaney and Christopher Datta
The Enduring Struggle
Review by Desaix Myers
The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World by John Norris
Why Nation-Building Matters
Review by Renee M Earle
Why Nation Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States by Keith W. Mines