Foreign service officers are often subject to circumstances beyond their control. Such was the case when a diplomatic quarrel occurred…

Foreign service officers are often subject to circumstances beyond their control. Such was the case when a diplomatic quarrel occurred…
Next to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, the Iranian seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 and…
The Biden administration nominated Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes to serve as assistant secretary of state for the department’s Bureau of…
The Modern American Diplomacy Podcast, produced by ADST and supported by the Una Chapman Cox Foundation, provides in-depth stories and…
A desolate landscape and frozen ocean seems like an unlikely place for the scene of major world events and geopolitical…
The end of the Cold War is sometimes thought about as a dramatic and rapid event marked by the fall…
Ever since the Foreign Service’s infancy, Foreign Service spouses have traveled with their partners to all corners of the world,…
Organized labor holds power in the histories of countries all across the world, coming to the forefront as a political…
Life can sometimes be unpredictable in the Foreign Service. Serving as a development officer may perhaps be even more unpredictable,…
Working with nuclear materials is, by its very nature, volatile. Carrying out diplomacy over nuclear materials is even more so.…