by Christopher Datta

by Mikael Barfod

by Robert Cox

by Brenda Brown Schoonover

by Mark Wentling In April 1991, while I was serving in Lomé, Togo as the USAID Representative for Togo and Benin, protests in Lomé against the dictatorial regime of President Eyadéma reached the boiling point. One night, President Eyadéma’s barbaric … Continued

by Douglas Smith
Reviewed by Renee M. Earle

by Olga Krasnyak

by Peter Sufrin

by David Cowhig Chinese physician Dr. Wang Shuping predicted the HIV epidemic among Henan peasant blood sellers and eventually raised the alarm all the way to Beijing when local and provincial authorities ignored the rapid spread of HIV among the … Continued

by Dick Virden

The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
reviewed by Jon P. Dorschner

by Eric V. Guichard

Although State does not track former PCVs in the department, an average of 5% of new Foreign Service Officers in the last four entering classes reported Peace Corps experience and more than 60 former volunteers have served as U.S. ambassadors.

by Gerald Kamens One morning in March 1959, a top secret policy paper appeared on my boss’s desk at Dwight Eisenhower’s Bureau of the Budget—later reborn as the Office of Management and Budget. Its subject: How to counter the Soviet … Continued

by John Coyne

Editor’s note: This is an unofficial list compiled by John Coyne. Please send any additions or corrections to editor@americandiplomacy.org.

A Frontline Snapshot of USAID History
by Eric Chetwynd, Jr.

by John Coyne

by Thomas E. McNamara

by Nicolai N. Petro