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How to Handle a Crisis – Ambassador Edition

As part of its Ambassadorial Seminar, the Foreign Service Institute gives each of the participants a copy of “This Worked…

The process of evacuating a country is filled with unexpected challenges. Many of these are logistical, while others include safety…

Traditionally, U.S. government officials put their hand on the Bible for their swearing-in. In recent years, some have used alternatives,…

Emergency medical care in developing countries can be problematic, if not wholly inadequate. Even more so in the 1960s. When…

The shaky peace that had held in Vietnam since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 began to…

A colony of Belgium until 1962, Rwanda became dominated politically by the minority Tutsis. During the independence movement, the majority…

Ken Stammerman was economic counselor in Kuwait from 1986 to 1987 before becoming consul general in Dhahran in 1989. Home…