In A Professional Foreigner (Potomac Books/U of Nebraska Press), volume #74 in the Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, Ambassador Edward Marks describes his life as a workaday American professional diplomat, including several close encounters with the U.S. military. Serving primarily in Africa and Asia, Marks was present during the era of...
Join Robyn McCutcheon, an out and proud transgender woman, on her journey as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State. Follow her on travels that took her through the Soviet Union as a historian, to the stars as an engineer in the Hubble Space Telescope project, and onward to...
There was a time when Wyoming and other Rocky Mountain and midwestern states were as likely to elect a liberal Democrat to Congress as they were a conservative Republican. Gale McGee (1915–92) was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1958, at the height of American liberalism. He typified what Teddy...
In Quiet Diplomacy, Armin Meyer recounts and analyzes the wide-ranging experiences and lessons learned in his remarkable life and extraordinary diplomatic career. He also offers valuable guidance for today’s diplomacy.
Ambassador Meyer’s distinguished public career spanned more than thirty tumultuous years of hot and cold war, beginning in World War...
Former ambassador to Pakistan and Bangladesh William B. Milam has produced a sympathetic, frank, and nuanced account of the two countries since their 1971 breakup. Published by Hurst & Co. of London and Columbia University Press, it is the 35th volume in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series. This book...
Robert Hopkins Miller’s forty-year Foreign Service career, from 1951 to 1991, spanned virtually the entire Cold War. Miller worked on America’s unsuccessful Vietnam venture and its aftermath for nearly one-third of his career, and this account demonstrates his exceptional “hands-on” knowledge and his own critical evolution. The Vietnam War of...
No one likes nation-building. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack the blueprint necessary to make it work. Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability. Left unattended, ungoverned spaces can produce crises from migration to economic...
Diplomats provide the first line of America’s defense as they formulate and implement our country’s foreign policy. Too often, the stories of their experiences and insights remain untold. In 2003 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) created the Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series to preserve such firsthand accounts...
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Are you interested in what a diplomatic career and family life can look like? Or insights into the Vietnam war and lessons learned and not learned? Or insights...