The U.S. Government Was Not Adequately Prepared for Coronavirus at Home or Abroad
by Ambassador [ret] Jimmy Kolker
The Significance of Targeting Soleimani
by Ophir Falk
Diplomats’ Duties in a Time of Disease
The following accounts are excerpted from news stories and social media posts.
Grim Week in Guinea
by Mark Wentling
How U.S.-Soviet Scientific and Technical Exchanges Helped End the Cold War
by Olga Krasnyak
Terrorism, Betrayal & Resilience
Review by Frances Duffy
Book : Terrorism, Betrayal & Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings by Prudence Bushnell
Fascism: A Warning
Review by Gilbert Donahue
Fascism: A Warning. Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward, Harper Collins, 2018, 288 pages including index.
Peace Works: America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World
Review by J. R. Bullington
Peace Works: America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World. By Rick Barton. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2018. Pages: 312. ISBN-13: 978-1538113004 and ISBN-10: 1538113007
The Limits of Opposition
A Case Study of U.S. Reflagging Operations During the Iran-Iraq War
by Christian Heller
U.S.-China Relations and the Art of the Deal
by Beatrice Camp
Introduction from Peace Works: America’s Unifying Role in a Turbulent World
by Rick Barton
To the Secretary: Leaked Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect
Review by Renee M. Earle
To the Secretary: Leaked Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect. ISBN 978-0-393-24658-2. W.W. Norton & Company. Mary Thompson-Jones
On foreign threats and ‘the calm before the storm’
by William P. Kiehl First published in Lancaster LNP October 22, 2017. At a recent photo op with senior military officers and their wives, President Donald Trump was heard to remark that it was “the calm before the storm.” In … 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
Jihad as Grand Strategy
Review by Jon Dorschner Jihad as Grand Strategy (Islamist Militancy, National Security, and the Pakistani State) by S. Paul Kapur, Oxford University Press: New York, 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-976852-3, 177 pp., $39.95 (Hardcover). Although the United States was a long-term patron … Read more
Reimagining Great Power Relations: Reimagining the International Environment: Part 1
Reimagining Great Power Relations Reimagining the International Environment: Part 1 by Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., (USFS, Ret.) Senior Fellow, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University 9 March 2017, Providence, Rhode Island “With appreciation for the … Read more
The National Security Debate and Classical Geopolitics
by Francis P. Sempa
How the Presidential Transition Process Works
And Why This One Will Be Like No Other by Michael W. Cotter The sub-title is not quite accurate, since each administration transfer happens a bit differently. But not this different. At least in living memory there has not been … Read more
Beyond the Basics: Holistic Humanitarian Assistance for Syrians
by Margo Berends Although Aleppo is now under the control of forces supporting the Syrian government and the city has been evacuated, it is but one city and the Syrian crisis is far from over. Millions have been displaced by … 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