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…
Oftentimes the greatest foreign policy struggles are not with the host government but rather with the government bureaucracy back home.…
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At the end of World War II, Germany was partitioned into four separate areas, each controlled by the four allied…