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Radio Free Europe: An Insider’s View
Radio Free Europe: An Insider’s View
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Brown, J. F. Diplomats and Diplomacy, Political science

Veteran RFE insider J. F. Brown’s story of the critical role Radio Free Europe played during the Cold War is the 53rd volume in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series. Brown, a widely recognized expert on Eastern Europe who served as RFE director in 1978–83, offers a balanced and penetrating analysis...

U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik
U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik
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Cohen, Herman J. Africa, history, Diplomats and Diplomacy, Political science

Herman Cohen draws on both the documentary record and his years of on-the-ground experience to provide a uniquely comprehensive survey and interpretation of nearly eight decades of US policy toward Africa. Tracing how this policy has evolved across successive administrations since 1942 (beginning with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term...

Africa, You Have a Friend in Washington
Africa, You Have a Friend in Washington
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Cohen, Herman J. Memoirs and Occasional Papers, Political science
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Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas
Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two...
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Gregg, Donald P. Diplomats and Diplomacy, International relations, Political science

Don Gregg spent thirty-one years as an operations officer in CIA and ten years in the White House under Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Pot Shards is his memoir. It tells of a philosophy graduate in 1951 who immediately joined the CIA when told, “You’ll jump out of airplanes and save the world!” His book is a window...

Witness to a Changing World
Witness to a Changing World
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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
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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
Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist
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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.

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Ambassador (ret.) Edward L. Peck presents a concise, organized framework for navigating international relations in Peck’s Postulates, a new volume in the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series. With touches of gentle humor, the author offers four concepts, each explicated with supporting statements and examples. Written as an introduction to the conduct of international relations, the work has, in the author’s view, broader relevance. He states: “Since it is people who decide what nations should do or not do—at whatever level and under whatever political structure—these postulates also apply to individuals’ everyday lives.” Amb. Peck graduated from high school at 17 and served in the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant and, later, paratrooper and first lieutenant during the Korean War before joining the Foreign Service. He served in Sweden, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt, in addition to ambassadorships to Iraq and Mauritania. Since retiring in 1989, he has been engaged in matters of diplomacy and diplomatic education as executive secretary of the American Academy of Diplomacy and as a lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute, at conferences, and on cruise ships.
Peck’s Postulates
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Peck, Edward L. Memoirs and Occasional Papers, Political science

Ambassador (ret.) Edward L. Peck presents a concise, organized framework for navigating international relations in Peck’s Postulates, a new volume in the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series. With touches of gentle humor, the author offers four concepts, each explicated with supporting statements and examples....

Arabian Nights and Daze: Living in Yemen with the Foreign Service provides a timely and needed understanding and appreciation for this vulnerable country, its history and culture, and the enormous challenges it faces today. Journey back to 1970 and enjoy the “never in a lifetime” adventure of the author and her Foreign Service officer husband as they reopened the U.S. diplomatic mission to Yemen after its closure by the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. David McClintock, who served as principal officer and his wife, Susan, as the mission’s secretary, arrived only eight years after the Republican Revolution ousted a thousand-year-old dynasty of Shiite (Zaydi) Muslim imams. The author describes, with both humor and respect, the country’s struggles in the early throes of becoming a modern, viable state in this remote corner of Arabia. The Yemeni people in the 1970s were friendly, respectful, and hospitable; they were not terrorists, as many claimed after the 2000 USS Cole attack in Aden’s harbor. Today, they are still a friendly, resilient, and proud people who are unwitting pawns in an international game of politics. Arabian Nights and Daze concludes with two chapters that discuss major challenges facing the present Yemen government as it tries to cope with international terrorism inside its borders, the global economic crisis, a major Shiite rebellion in the north near the Saudi border, and a strong secessionist movement in the south. A chronology of Yemen’s long history, a glossary of terms, and a comprehensive bibliography provide the reader additional resources for developing a better understanding and more positive regard for a little-known country maligned by negative media. Susan Wyatt was previously a career counselor in several locations including the U.S. State Department’s Family Liaison Office. She and her present husband Richard Williams divide their time between Albuquerque, NM, and Eugene, OR. She is the author of Thirty Acres More or Less: Restoring a Farm in Virginia, published in 2003.
Arabian Nights and Daze
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Wyatt, Susan Clough Memoirs and Occasional Papers, Political science

Arabian Nights and Daze: Living in Yemen with the Foreign Service provides a timely and needed understanding and appreciation for this vulnerable country, its history and culture, and the enormous challenges it faces today.

Journey back to 1970 and enjoy the “never in a lifetime” adventure of the author and...

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