A Statistical Reflection on Official Development Assistance and Whether It is Directed Towards Its Goals and Ideals by Steve Dobransky American Diplomacy rarely publishes statistical analysis. But because this paper analyzes the debate over foreign aid’s purposes and motivations, we … Continued

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved by voice vote April 13, 2010 the Peace Corps Improvement and Expansion Act of 2009 (S 1382). Sponsored by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), the bill would require the Peace Corps director to develop a … Continued

2011 marks the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Peace Corps.  To mark the occasion, American Diplomacy would like to feature articles on the Peace Corps, including both anecdotal and analytical contributions by former Peace Corp volunteers, current Peace Corps volunteers … Continued

by David Alexander Robinson

Foreign Policy Dilemmas before the President-Elect
by Chas. W. Freeman, Jr.

by Chas W. Freeman, Jr.

by J. R. Bullington

Reviewed by Henry E. Mattox

by Carl Fritz

by John Williamson

by Brenda Schoonover

by Jaques deLisle

The Blessings of Globalization–“Done Right” Review by Carl Fritz Globalization and Its Discontents. By Joseph E. Stiglitz. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001. Pp. xxii, 288. $15.95 paper.) Stiglitz believes globalization is good if done right; removal of free … Continued

by Ronald D. Palmer The following remarks have been adapted from a sermon delivered by the author at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY, on February 24, 2002. Here he focuses attention on another aspect of the war on terrorism, … Continued

– E X T R A C T – by David G. Brown Through the courtesy of the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Amb. Ron Palmer, we present in this issue excerpts from the … Continued

GLOBALISM vs.ECONOMIC NATIONALISM THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN CASE By Ronald D. Palmer Ambassador Ronald D. Palmer contributes the following political and economic assessment of Southeast Asia, which may be read usefully in conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s special report, also … Continued

por Elvio Baldinelli “As long as the U.S. aspires to be a European power and extends a security guarantee to key European countries. . . it will be inevitably concerned about major political and economic developments in Eastern Europe.” Ronald … Continued

by Ronald D. F. Palmer I. History of Recent TimesTHIS IS WRITTEN IN 1996, one year after the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II was widely celebrated in the United States and Europe. The Asians marked the … Continued