The following was written by Victor H. Ashe, Ambassador to Poland under the Bush Administration. He argues that President Obama’s past actions…
The unusually strong response to Stephanie Kinney’s piece on the lack of core values within the Foreign Service — by far…
The United States Department of State is not the monolithic entity it may at first appear to be. The lack…
The Transnistria region in Moldova is a Cold War relic. Along with Nagorno-Karabakh in Armenian-controlled Azerbaijan and South Ossetia in Georgia, it is…
On March 16, 1968, in what was one of the most shocking incidents of the Vietnam War and in the…
On January 1, 1959, after a sustained armed revolt led by Fidel Castro and others took control over most of…
It sounds like something out of a novel: a group of rebels, helped by an American, seize an embassy in…
The Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union has experienced several conflicts that have been provoked by ethnic hatred and…
Find articles about diplomatic events from each day of the year Here’s a handy calendar of events linked to Moments…
József Mindszenty was a Roman Catholic cardinal ordained shortly after World War II who staunchly resisted the fascist and later…