James A. Baker served as the Secretary of State during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1992,…
On August 30, 1983, a Boeing 747, Korean Airlines 007 took off for Seoul from New York’s John F. Kennedy…
The unusually strong response to Stephanie Kinney’s piece on the lack of core values within the Foreign Service — by far…
Foggy Bottom, so called because its location alongside the Potomac made it susceptible to dense concentrations of fog and industrial smoke, refers not only…
On March 16, 1968, in what was one of the most shocking incidents of the Vietnam War and in the…
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by ten European countries, the U.S. and Canada in 1949 in the aftermath of…
This article first appeared in the May 2013 edition of the Foreign Service Journal. In it, Susan R. Johnson, the…
The Olympic Games, despite their lofty ideals, have since their inception in ancient Greece intertwined the best of athletic competition…
The Foreign Service has undergone major reforms and tinkering over the past century, so much so that people often joked…
After attempting to convince Washington that a civil war in China was imminent and that the Communists would be the…