As part of its Ambassadorial Seminar, the Foreign Service Institute gives each of the participants a copy of “This Worked…
It sounds like a scene out of a movie: a corrupt dictator attempts to flee the country with the help…
The State Department is not exactly known for its jocularity but once in a while, it can have its fair…
OK, when you think about State Department types — if you think about them at all — chances are they’re…
Like many countries, the U.S. has recently grappled with the issue of how to deal with marijuana usage: Should it…
It is difficult in this day and age to imagine any ambassador being on the cover of a major magazine…
Foggy Bottom, so called because its location alongside the Potomac made it susceptible to dense concentrations of fog and industrial smoke, refers not only…
The Foreign Service has undergone major reforms and tinkering over the past century, so much so that people often joked…
“The Government of the United States of America acknowledges the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan…
Since 1986, the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) has recorded more…