Hume, Cameron R.
Cameron R. Hume was a career U.S. Foreign Service officer from 1970 to 2010, retiring with the rank of Career Minister. After assignments in Italy, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, the United Nations, and the Holy See, he served as ambassador to Algeria, South Africa, and Indonesia and as chargé d’affaires in Khartoum. He is the author of The United Nations, Iran and Iraq: How Peacemaking Changed (1994), Ending Mozambique’s War (1994), and numerous articles on foreign policy, has been a fellow or guest scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Harvard Center for International Affairs, and the U.S. Institute of Peace, and is a graduate of Princeton University and American University School of Law.
By 1990, as the state-controlled Algerian economy careened toward the brink of bankruptcy, its government began to turn away from one-party rule and toward democracy. But after the government canceled an election that Islamist parties were poised to win, the ensuing Islamist insurgency killed as many as 100,000 and threatened...