"Where the Styles Brook Waters Flow: The Place I Call Home by Lorraine Duvall is a love song to 'The Glen' and to the richness and importance of the Styles Brook Watershed, part of the wildlife corridor called the Split Rock Wildway in NY's eastern Adirondack Mountains. Like a river,...
No better book could have launched the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series than Peter Eicher’s “Emperor Dead” and Other Historic American Dispatches. The dispatches tell their own story—of remarkable Americans most of whom served their country “well and faithfully,” in the words of the ambassadorial oath. They provide insight into...
Since its inception, the United States has sent envoys to advance American interests abroad, both across oceans and to areas that later became part of the country. Little has been known about these first envoys until now. From China to Chile, Tripoli to Tahiti, Mexico to Muscat, Peter...
The ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series has now reached fifty volumes with the publication of Early American Diplomacy in the Near and Far East by the late Ambassador Hermann F. Eilts, a leading twentieth-century diplomat and scholar.
From the inception of the republic to the Civil War, the United States eschewed political...
Since Xi Jinping’s accession to power in 2012, nearly every aspect of China’s relations with Africa has grown dramatically. Beijing has increased the share of resources it devotes to African countries, expanding military cooperation, technological investment, and educational and cultural programs as well as extending its political influence.
This book...
Diversifying Diplomacy tells the story of Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas, a young black woman who beat the odds and challenged the status quo. Inspired by the strong women in her life, she followed in the footsteps of the few women who had gone before her in her effort to make the...
In the tense aftermath of the 1992–95 Bosnian War, U.S. diplomat Bill Farrand was assigned the daunting task of implementing the Dayton Peace Accords in the ethnically divided Balkan city of Brčko in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serb, Muslim, and Croat political leaders alike had blocked agreement over Brčko’s political status...
Ambassador to a Small World is a highly personal portrait of Chad from the vantage point of Christopher E. Goldthwait, the longest-serving U.S. Ambassador to N’Djamena. The book touches on Chad’s politics, economy, and society and on U.S. foreign policy, foreign aid, and the life of the small American community...
A Strategy for Stable Peace, coauthored by three highly experienced experts, presents the results of a two-year study on alternative futures for U.S.-EU-Russian relations and a “peaceful, undivided, democratic Europe.” It offers bold and pragmatic arguments for creating a security community circling the Northern Hemisphere from Vancouver to Vladivostok.
The...