Have you ever seen a monkey in an airport? How about the Dalai Lama? Have you visited the world’s first…

Have you ever seen a monkey in an airport? How about the Dalai Lama? Have you visited the world’s first…
The United States’ war on Communism has crucially shaped much of our foreign policy today. Since the First Red Scare…
In the early 1990s, at the height of the “War on Drugs,” David Lyon took a break from consular work…
Terrorism the world over poses a threat to the lives of Foreign Service Officers. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s terrorist…
There’s never a dull moment in the life of a USAID social anthropologist! The foreign service can indeed present a…
In 1986 Congress overrode a presidential veto on major foreign policy. During the 1980s, the American public increasingly resented the…
In 1980, a democratization movement spread throughout South Korea following the assassination of Park Chung-hee, which ended his 18-year authoritarian…
When Ulric Haynes joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1964 as the desk officer for Southwest Africa, the United States…
There was no warning. The shaking that soon rocked mainland Japan on March 11, 2011 would tear down buildings and…
During the Scramble for Africa (a period lasting from 1881 to 1914 that brought colonization of most of Africa by…