Avoiding Bloodshed With IranIn the Persian Gulf
Avoiding Bloodshed With Iran In the Persian Gulf During the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, merchant ships became regular…
Assisting Americans Aboard the Hijacked Cruise Ship Achille Lauro
Assisting Americans Aboard the Hijacked Cruise Ship Achille Lauro The Foreign Service took Edmund Hull far from his home in…
Getting the Russians to Drink Pepsi
Getting the Russians to Drink Pepsi After growing up in New York City, Gilbert Robinson found himself at the…
Frank Wisner
MY FOREIGN SERVICE ROLE MODEL- – AMBASSADOR FRANK WISNER by Kenneth M Quinn My wartime experience as a Foreign Service…
Fifty Years in USAID: Stories From the Front Lines
Published in November 2012 by Arlington Hall Press, an imprint of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, this collection…
Joys and Perils of Living Abroad: Memoirs of a Foreign Service Family
Diego Asencio met Nancy Rodriguez in 1951, and the young couple married in 1953. Diego entered the U.S Foreign Service…
Strangers When We Met: A Century of American Community in Kuwait
This history, twenty years in the research and writing, relates the story of Americans living in Kuwait, beginning with the…
Getting Past The Interpreter To Clinch an Aircraft Deal
Getting Past The Interpreter To Clinch an Aircraft Deal U.S. Ambassadors are often asked to weigh in on a big…
Documenting Human Rights Abuses in Argentina’s “Dirty War”
Documenting Human Rights Abuses in Argentina’s “Dirty War” Franklyn Allen Harris, known to his colleagues as “Tex,” was born in…
Evacuating Rwanda in the Midst of Genocide
Evacuating Rwanda in the Midst of Genocide The Foreign Service took Arlene Render from a segregated neighborhood in Cleveland…