Tag: Human Rights
U.S. Diplomatic Engagement and Cultural Heritage Protection
by Larry Schwartz
Adapted from Newberry Series Lecture at Dacor-Bacon House
Washington, D.C., July 13, 2018
Post-War Burma, a First-Hand Account from John Cady
Excerpted with permission of Ohio University from “Contacts with Burma, 1935-1949: A Personal Account”.
Fascism: A Warning
Review by Gilbert Donahue
Fascism: A Warning. Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward, Harper Collins, 2018, 288 pages including index.
Diplomacy on the Rocks
by Ambassador (ret.) Barbara K. Bodine At Minneapolis Council on Foreign Relations Minneapolis, MN November 21, 2017 The News You Have Not Heard On my way here I heard a news report that the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman … Read more
Venezuela: A Situation Report
by Patrick Duddy Venezuela remains in crisis. Popular support for the so-called Bolivarian revolution and its socio-economic model known as twenty-first century socialism has eroded dramatically. Polling suggests there is a near consensus among Venezuelans that conditions are bad and … Read more
Authoritarian Backlash: A Comparison of Turkey & Venezuela
by Ambassador (ret.) Robert Pearson The Character of Democracy “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This famous opening line from Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is important also for democracies. While Turkey and … Read more
Reimagining the Middle East Reimagining the International Environment: Part 3
by Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., (USFS, Ret.) Senior Fellow, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University 6 April 2017, Providence, Rhode Island “With appreciation for the assistance of the American Academy of Diplomacy <academy@academyofdiplomacy.org> we offer … Read more
The Foreign Policy Triangle: A Schema to Promote Understanding of the Basis for Foreign Policy Decisions
by Russell C. Brown, M.Ed. When looking at the foreign policy of the United States, or any country for that matter, understanding motives is crucial. There has been great debate throughout the 20th and the early 21st centuries over what … Read more
In Defense of The “Obama Doctrine”
In Defense of The “Obama Doctrine”: A Sober Reappraisal of the Limits of American Power by John R. Murnane In a series of interviews with Jefferey Goldberg in the April 2016 Atlantic, President Barack Obama provided a much-needed and sober … Read more
Notes for American Diplomacy on Civil-Military Relations
by David C. Litt POLAD: A Global Warrior-Diplomat I served as the State Department’s Political Advisor (POLAD) to two US military combatant commands during a watershed moment of the post-Cold War era: 1998-2004. To make these political-military assignments even more … Read more
When will we learn… Drawing public and private lines in the sand?
by Johnny Young, Amb. (Ret.) I send heartfelt congratulations on the 20th anniversary of the publication American Diplomacy. Twenty years of publication is a notable achievement in adding to the body of knowledge and literature offered to those interested in … Read more
The Conduct of Foreign Policy in the Information Age
The Royal Institute of International Affairs June 21, 1994 by Walter R. Roberts It is a great pleasure to be here today and to share with you some thoughts on how the conduct of foreign affairs has changed in the … Read more
Helsinki and Human Rights
by Yale Richmond The participating States… Make it their aim to facilitate freer movement and contacts, individually and collectively, whether privately or officially, among persons, institutions and organizations of the participating States, and to contribute to the solution of the … Read more