Ambassador Anne Patterson Ambassador Patterson is currently the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of ADST. Patterson was the Assistant…
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Drawing on his experiences as U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Ambassador Princeton Lyman highlights the decision making trade-offs he…
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There have been a number of prominent women who have served in the State Department over the past century: Francis…
Edward “Skip” Gnehm served as Ambassador to Kuwait shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, from 1991 to 1994, and…
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Back to Diplomats and Diplomacy Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist Available in January 2014 “Among Parker’s fascinating insights into…
The life of Constance Ray Harvey at times sounded like something from the movie Casablanca. During World War II, after tours in…
It was the end of one era and the beginning of another. In August 1947 the British Empire, which had…