Back to Diplomats and Diplomacy Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist Available in January 2014 “Among Parker’s fascinating insights into…
One of the great dilemmas in foreign policy is when and whether to negotiate with one’s enemies. Will a dialogue…
Despite getting extremely close to agreeing to negotiations to avert hostilities, the U.S. and Japan failed to make peace and…
December 7, 1941 will forever be one of the most memorable dates in American history. The attack on Pearl Harbor, a preemptive…
József Mindszenty was a Roman Catholic cardinal ordained shortly after World War II who staunchly resisted the fascist and later…
At the end of World War II, Germany was partitioned into four separate areas, each controlled by the four allied…
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…
Recent events in Syria have once again spotlighted the dangers of chemical weapons and international efforts to catalog and destroy…
With the end of World War II in August 1945, there was still no consensus on Korea’s fate among Allied…