Foggy Bottom, so called because its location alongside the Potomac made it susceptible to dense concentrations of fog and industrial smoke, refers not only…
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The 444-day-long Iran Hostage Crisis ranks as one of the most traumatic diplomatic events in U.S. history and even thirty…
The early 1950s witnessed a thaw in the Communist monolith. Stalin’s death in 1953 led to Khrushchev’s “secret speech” in…
It was the end of one era and the beginning of another. In August 1947 the British Empire, which had…
Frank Carlucci III is best known for his tenure as Secretary of Defense under the Reagan administration, yet in his…
Recent events in Syria have once again spotlighted the dangers of chemical weapons and international efforts to catalog and destroy…
Back to Diplomats and Diplomacy Mission to Algiers: Diplomacy by Engagement “At a time when the United States is encouraging…
Unrest in the Middle East has been an unrelenting problem for centuries, the Gordian knot that cannot be cut. The…