The decision by referendum of the British electorate to depart the European Union — after a campaign in which facts…
Born to a modest family, Joseph-Desiré Mobutu prospered in the Force Publique, the army of the Belgian Congo. Mobutu became…
Traditionally, Secretaries of State receive a personal protection detail from the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). However, Henry Kissinger…
In March 1968, a K-129 Soviet nuclear submarine cruising in the Pacific Ocean mysteriously disappeared from Russian radar. Following an…
In 1961, United States forces in Vietnam began to use chemical herbicides and defoliants on South Vietnamese crops, bushes, and…
In the 1960s, in the depths of the Cold War, the world was viewed in terms of a zero-sum game:…
When a country undergoes internal conflict and something as dramatic as a coup d’etat, the results can often lead to…
After the fall of Yugoslavia in the early 1990’s, the Balkans descended into a bloody ethnic and sectarian conflict. Although…
The Foreign Service Exam is one of the most selective of its kind in the United States. Of the thousands…
The Law of the Sea Treaty (formally known as the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,…