No one likes nation-building. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack…
Former ambassador to Pakistan and Bangladesh William B. Milam has produced a sympathetic, frank, and nuanced account of the two…
In A Professional Foreigner (Potomac Books/U of Nebraska Press), volume #74 in the Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, Ambassador Edward Marks…
Defiant Diplomacy depicts the extraordinary life of diplomat Henrik de Kauffmann (1888–1963), a major figure in U.S.-Danish relations during World War…
As deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide—a period of political…
A major event in the history of the Cold War, the Colonels’ Coup of April 21, 1967, ushered in seven…
By 1990, as the state-controlled Algerian economy careened toward the brink of bankruptcy, its government began to turn away from…
When the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the United States was tasked with establishing diplomatic relations with the newly independent…
It is estimated that one-third to one-half of the women married to U.S. Foreign Service officers are foreign-born. In Foreign at…