Have you ever seen a monkey in an airport? How about the Dalai Lama? Have you visited the world’s first…
A Failure of American Ideology?—The Spread of Communism in South America and the International Sphere
The United States’ war on Communism has crucially shaped much of our foreign policy today. Since the First Red Scare…
The State Department’s Air Wing and Counternarcotics Programs in South America
In the early 1990s, at the height of the “War on Drugs,” David Lyon took a break from consular work…
The Technology of Terror – South America in the 70s and 80s
Terrorism the world over poses a threat to the lives of Foreign Service Officers. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s terrorist…
Development in South Asia and Latin America: USAID in the ‘90s
There’s never a dull moment in the life of a USAID social anthropologist! The foreign service can indeed present a…
American People’s Foreign Policy: USAID’s Role in Apartheid South Africa
In 1986 Congress overrode a presidential veto on major foreign policy. During the 1980s, the American public increasingly resented the…
The 1980 Kwangju Massacre and the Surge in Anti-Americanism in South Korea
In 1980, a democratization movement spread throughout South Korea following the assassination of Park Chung-hee, which ended his 18-year authoritarian…
Preserving America’s Ideals In Vietnam and Laos
Preserving America’s Ideals In Vietnam and Laos Morton Dworken grew up on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, joined the Foreign…
South Dakota
Contributions by South Dakotans in the Foreign Service People born, raised, or educated in South Dakota have made important contributions…
South Carolina
Contributions by South Carolinians in the Foreign Service People born, raised, or educated in South Carolina have made important contributions…