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Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War Education

Miller, Robert H. American history: Vietnam War, Diplomats and Diplomacy, Miller, Robert Hopkins.

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...

Why Nation-Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile...

Mines, Keith W. Diplomats and Diplomacy

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 and other informed observations on foreign affairs. In American Diplomats, retired diplomats William D. Morgan and Charles Stuart Kennedy have selected from ADST’s Foreign Affairs Oral History archives forty accounts of diplomats’ experiences in the years from 1920 to1997. Insiders recount, for example, what happens when a consul spies on Nazi Germany, Mao-Tse-Tung drops by for a chat, the Cold War begins with the Berlin blockade, the Marshall Plan rescues Europe, Sukarno moves Indonesia into the communist camp, Khrushchev calls Kennedy an SOB, and our ambassador is murdered in Kabul. The editors have set each episode in its historical context. “You are there” accounts deepen readers’ understanding, as diplomatic and consular officers talk about predicting a coup in Ecuador, the beginnings of Kremlinology, the first woman US commercial officer in Latin America, Hemingway and the embassy in Havana, the secret formulation of the NATO treaty, Jerusalem after British and U.S. recognition of Israel, a house arrest in Mukden, China, fighting in the Congo over Katangan secession, dealing with an alcoholic foreign president, human rights work in Paraguay, the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran, Greece and Turkey at odds over an island, the U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut, the breakup of Yugoslavia, embassy roles in Riyadh and Tel Aviv during Desert Storm, and much more. Those whose oral histories are excerpted in the book are: Theodore C. Achilles, Aldene Alice Barrington, Maurice Bernbaum, William A. Brown, John H. Burns, Richard Butrick, Frank C. Carlucci III, Elinor Constable, William R. Crawford, Robert S. Dillon, Thomas J. Dunnigan, Eldon E. B. Erickson, Charles W. Freeman Jr., Charles Anthony Gillespie Jr., Marshall Green, Parker T. Hart, Constance R. Harvey, Edward Hurwitz, Kempton B. Jenkins, C. William Kontos, George W. Landau, L. Bruce Laingen, LaRue R. Lutkins, Douglas MacArthur II, Michael M. Mahoney, Robert J. Martens, James McCargar, Francis Terry McNamara, John Melby, Thomas N. T. Niles, Claiborne Pell, Robert Rackmales, John Stewart Service, Wells Stabler, Richard S. Thompson, Nicholas L. Veliotes, William Watts, E. Allan Wendt.

American Diplomats

Morgan, William D. , Kennedy, Charles Stuart Memoirs and Occasional Papers, United States. -- Foreign Service -- History.

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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Pacific Gilbraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry over the Annexation of Hawai’i, 1885-1898

Morgan, William M. Diplomats and Diplomacy

Based on a sweeping reevaluation of new and old sources in three countries, Pacific Gibraltar

Curious about a senior American diplomat’s perspective on working for a U.S. Secretary of State and the inner workings of foreign policy? 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 into China’s “reform and opening up” and challenges in U.S.-China relations? Or Hong Kong’s historic return to China in 1997 and its future? Or insights into a second career in education leading three international schools and education in the twenty-first century? This memoir, written by a former senior U.S. Foreign Service Officer, provides readers with an introduction to how the Department of State serves the American people, advances national security interests, and builds bridges to international understanding through its global network of embassies and other diplomatic missions. Mueller served in numerous overseas assignments, including two postings at the American Embassy in Saigon during the Vietnam War, at the United States Liaison Office in Beijing in the 1970s before the establishment of a formal embassy, and as the highest-ranking American diplomat in Hong Kong leading up to its reversion to China. Those postings gave him numerous opportunities to help build global bridges to understanding among diverse countries and peoples. With firsthand insights, the author shares experiences working for Secretaries Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and James Baker—offering a unique perspective on U.S. global foreign policies of the last fifty years. After his career in the Foreign Service, serendipity led Mueller to become the Head of School for three independent institutions: Northfield Mount Hermon School (NMH) in Massachusetts, Hong Kong International School, and Shanghai American School. The NMH board of trustees had assured him that "diplomacy would be highly valued in the realm of education," aligning with the school's longstanding dedication to international education. Mueller explores his vision of a quality education centered on students and reflects on the rewarding experience of interacting with students and school communities for fifteen years, while collectively deepening their understanding of our interconnected world. Mueller and his wife, Claire (also Foreign Service), and their family including seven grandchildren have fully embraced the international life of service and building bridges to understanding. They reside in Golden, Colorado.

From American Diplomat to Diplomatic Educator: Building Global Bridges to Understanding

Mueller, Richard Memoirs and Occasional Papers

Curious about a senior American diplomat’s perspective on working for a U.S. Secretary of State and the inner workings of foreign policy?

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...

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Breaking Protocol: America’s First Female Ambassadors, 1933-1964

Nash, Phillip Diplomats and Diplomacy

Philip Nash, Breaking Protocol: America’s First Female Ambassadors, 1933–1964 (University Press of Kentucky, 2020)––An extensive deep dive into the career journeys of six of the most influential early women diplomats. The State Department was a male-dominated entity, and women had a hard time making breakthroughs within it. Nash details the...

The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan

Neumann, Ronald E. Diplomats and Diplomacy, Neumann, Ronald E. -- 1944-

The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan is Ronald E. Neumann’s account of how the war in Afghanistan unfolded in the two years after he arrived in Kabul from Baghdad in July 2005 as the United States ambassador. A career diplomat, Ambassador Neumann brought to the job a lifetime’s professional...

Witness to a Changing World

Newsom, David D. Biography: general, Diplomats and Diplomacy, Political science

Witness to a Changing World is the life story of David Dunlop Newsom, a Foreign Service officer who rose through the ranks from third secretary and vice consul in Karachi in 1948 to the top career post of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Carter administration. Along the...

Nicole Prévost Logan’s overview of the life and work of an American diplomatic family over thirty years in ten countries on three continents reveals her hands-on approach and her pride at a career spent mostly in the field. The couple’s cosmopolitan upbringing enriched the empathy they felt toward the different cultures they encountered. Logan approaches each country with a voracious curiosity, learning about its history, political system, and culture. She seems to enjoy the constant discoveries, thrives on difficulties, and spices up her story with personal, often humorous commentaries, especially about her husband Alan. In portraying him, she reveals much about the role of a Foreign Service officer and their postings in Taiwan, Turkey, Lebanon, the Soviet Union, Guinea, Nigeria, Tunisia, Belgium, South Africa, and the Gambia. Against an exciting backdrop of civil war, political coups, and turmoil, the story reads like an adventure. It touches on U.S. foreign policy in the Far East, turmoil in the Middle East, “thaw” in the Soviet Union, U.S. economic assistance and the future of Africa, the coming together of Europe, and the end of apartheid. Although the author does not consider the book to be academic, she conducted thorough research in writing it and hopes it will interest a wide readership, including diplomats, academics, and art lovers. NICOLE PRÉVOST LOGAN grew up in Paris, where she graduated from “Sciences Po” and earned a law degree from the Sorbonne. She has master’s degrees in political science from Stanford University and in Russian studies from American University. After thirty years of diplomatic life, she concentrated on archaeological expeditions and published several articles on digs in Tunisia, Israel, and Russia. She sailed with her husband on the Black Sea, the Baltic, the Adriatic, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean and later traveled down the Volga by sailboat. She has four grown children and divides her time between Connecticut and Paris.

Forever on the Road

Nicole Prevost Logan Memoirs and Occasional Papers, Political science

Nicole Prévost Logan’s overview of the life and work of an American diplomatic family over thirty years in ten countries on three continents reveals her hands-on approach and her pride at a career spent mostly in the field. The couple’s cosmopolitan upbringing enriched the empathy they felt toward the different...

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Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist

Parker, Richard B. Diplomats and Diplomacy, Political science

Dick Parker was renowned in the State Department for his dry acerbic wit. From his early youth on U.S. Cavalry posts across the Southwest to his World War II experiences, through a successful Foreign Service career as a leading Arabist in the Near East, he observed and commented on everything.

In this autobiography...