China scholar Richard Solomon, who was an essential component of the “ping-pong diplomacy” that led to the thaw in relations…
In 1991, the U.S. led a coalition of over 30 nations to force Iraqi troops out of Kuwait after Saddam…
After Fidel Castro ousted Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista, expropriated American economic assets and developed links with the Soviet Union, President Eisenhower authorized the…
When President Richard Nixon took office in 1969, he and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger vowed to find a way…
Yemen has experienced violence and poverty in recent decades, but for centuries was a pivotal crossroads for trade and travel.…
Considered by many the most accomplished diplomat of his generation, Thomas Reeve Pickering served as U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Nigeria,…
Born in Philadelphia, Harold “Hal” Saunders graduated from Princeton and Yale before serving in the U.S. Air Force. After working…
The goal of public diplomacy (PD) is defined as supporting the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advancing…
In 1982 a long-simmering dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina over a small group of islands – the Falklands…
The “Iron Curtain” was a term used to denote the efforts of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to block…