Memoirs and Occasional Papers – An ADST Series

ADST created the Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series to preserve firsthand accounts, histories, and other informed observations on foreign affairs for scholars, journalists, and the general public.

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In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. Role in Rwanda deepens understanding of the Rwandan genocide and the Congolese war that engulfed Central Africa in the 1990s and America’s policy response to the crises. Gribbin draws on his thirty years of diplomatic experience in the region to analyze U.S. perceptions of Rwanda in the years before the genocide and to recount the unfolding of the terrible event itself. Most important, he describes what happened afterwards–how the new government and people of Rwanda, together with their international partners, confronted devastation, picked up the pieces, and began to forge a new nation. They had to reestablish viable government, deliver justice to those guilty of genocide, repatriate over a million refugees, and confront an insurgency and war in the Congo. In the Aftermath of Genocide is an insider’s account of these crucial events and of what the U.S. government knew, or did not know, and what it did, or did not do, about these challenges. Bob Griffin spent thirty years on diplomatic assignments in Africa, serving twice in Rwanda, once before and once after the genocide. As U.S. ambassador to Rwanda from 1995 to 1999, he worked for reconstruction, the return of refugees, reconciliation, and regional peace. Now retired, he undertakes short-term diplomatic postings to the continent he knows so well, in addition to consulting, writing, and teaching.
In the Aftermath of Genocide
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Gribbin, Robert E. Africa, history, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. Role in Rwanda deepens understanding of the Rwandan genocide and the Congolese war that engulfed Central Africa in the 1990s and America’s policy response to the crises. Gribbin draws on his thirty years of diplomatic experience in the region to analyze U.S. perceptions...

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Since September 11, 2001, U.S. public diplomacy has come under increased scrutiny along with renewed debate about its necessity. Until 1999, the United States Information Agency (USIA) was responsible for what is now called “public diplomacy,” conducting media, cultural, and educational exchange programs. Nine Lives recounts successful public diplomacy programs that could offer valuable lessons for current and future public diplomacy practitioners. It discusses terrorism, narcotics trafficking, Islamic customs and beliefs, and how each post differs in accordance with U.S. foreign policy objectives at the time. Allen Hansen’s memoir depicts the excitement, frustration, satisfactions, and glamour of his Foreign Service career with the USIA in nine countries to which he was posted during the Cold War. Each chapter provides informative insight on the host country’s relationship with the United States and outlines the objectives and programs of the U.S. Information Service (USIS, the agency’s overseas name). Hansen recounts the achievements or lack thereof of American and local personnel and shares vivid anecdotes about professional colleagues from the Department of State and other agencies. Intrigue, coups d’etat, civil war, a murder in Montevideo, and breathtaking, at times harrowing, adventures surround his global odyssey to exotic locales. Allen C. Hansen joined USIA as a member of its second junior officer training clas in 1954, a year after the agency’s creation. As a Foreign Service officer for 32 years, he served in nine countries and, periodically, in Washington, D.C. He retired in 1987 and has authored five books.
Nine Lives
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Hansen, Allen C. International Relations - Diplomacy, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

Since September 11, 2001, U.S. public diplomacy has come under increased scrutiny along with renewed debate about its necessity. Until 1999, the United States Information Agency (USIA) was responsible for what is now called “public diplomacy,” conducting media, cultural, and educational exchange programs. Nine Lives recounts successful public diplomacy programs...

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The fifty-seven short essays in this book set the scene for the difficulties that now threaten Egypt. They were written during 1990–1995 while Lillian Harris, a former American Foreign Service officer married to Alan Goulty, a British diplomat, lived in Cairo. The essays explore Egypt’s cities, deserts, societies, monasteries, and circumstances in a time of widespread unrest that helped set the scene for the Arab Spring two decades later. Other essays examine life in Cairo, diplomatic difficulties, religious tensions, the problems of the poor, unrest under the Mubarak regime, and travels in many of the remoter parts of Egypt now largely off-limits to foreigners. Dr. Harris’s travels gave her insights on many of the key themes relevant to political debate in Egypt today––the genesis of political malaise and extremism, economic fragility and the wealth gap, terrorism, threats to the environment and to Egypt’s rich cultural heritage, and perennial social issues such as the Muslim-Christian divide, women’s rights, population pressures, and leprosy. Enriching the book is the personal spiritual lens through which Lillian Harris views her experiences. She provides a unique picture of Egypt and Egyptians at a crucial period of Egypt’s modern history.
Travels into the Heart of Egypt
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Harris, Lillian Craig Memoirs and Occasional Papers

The fifty-seven short essays in this book set the scene for the difficulties that now threaten Egypt. They were written during 1990–1995 while Lillian Harris, a former American Foreign Service officer married to Alan Goulty, a British diplomat, lived in Cairo.

The essays explore Egypt’s cities, deserts, societies, monasteries, and...

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Deane Hinton’s memoir presents a reliable firsthand account of the development of U.S. strategic economic policy and the new institutions that became the framework for trade, aid, economic growth, and monetary policy. Hinton was one of a handful of experts on these issues to serve in high policy positions throughout the Cold War. He moved rapidly up the promotion ladder because his knowledge and skills were in short supply at the State Department. State’s senior practitioners, and occasionally presidents, called upon his talent for negotiation. The book recounts Hinton’s youth, army service in Italy in World War II, and 48-year diplomatic career, starting with political, commercial, and consular postings and including economic studies at Fletcher and Harvard. In the Paris embassy’s Office of the Treasury Attaché, he analyzed French money supply and worked on taxation issues. At State, he became an expert in negotiations to establish the European Common Market, then served in Brussels as a charter member of the U.S. Mission to the European Community. After a break at the National War College, he worked on commodity issues and Kennedy Round trade negotiations. Subsequently he brought his economic gifts to bear on development issues, serving as AID director and economic counselor in Guatemala and Chile. Recalled to Washington, he spent four years in the White House, three as deputy director of the Council on International Economic Policy. Hinton also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Economics and Business in the Carter administration. Overseas he served in eleven posts, in six of them as ambassador. In Pakistan President Zia lied to Ambassador Hinton about his plans for nuclear weapons, which Zia balanced by lying to the Soviets about his and U.S. support for the mujahadeen. His book is a serious record of events and analysis by a skilled policy maker. Following military service, Deane Hinton joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1946. For forty-eight years, he witnessed history at first hand. Few FSOs can match his range of experience: in Europe, the Near East, Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and Washington. Consular experience, advanced economic training, financial reporting, and intelligence analysis followed a posting in Damascus in the first Palestine War, before working on European issues. Assignments to Latin America and AID led to a White House assignment working on top-level economic issues. After Mobutu expelled him as ambassador to Zaire, Hinton became ambassador to the European Communities. As ambassador to El Salvador, he faced out-of-control army death squads. Pakistan was difficult but fabulous for its history and sights. Hinton retired in 1994 as ambassador to Panama and a Career Ambassador, the Foreign Service’s highest rank.
Economics and Diplomacy
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Hinton, Deane R. Diplomats, biography, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

Deane Hinton’s memoir presents a reliable firsthand account of the development of U.S. strategic economic policy and the new institutions that became the framework for trade, aid, economic growth, and monetary policy. Hinton was one of a handful of experts on these issues to serve in high policy positions throughout...

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A detailed chronicle of the working life of an idealistic, action-oriented World War II veteran’s lifelong search for peace through strengthening democracies and the international institutions that unite them.
An architect of Democracy
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Huntley, James Robert Diplomats and Diplomacy, International relations, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

A detailed chronicle of the working life of an idealistic, action-oriented World War II veteran’s lifelong search for peace through strengthening democracies and the international institutions that unite them.

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A memoir of dramatic moments in recent history. On June 4, 1989, Joanne Grady Huskey was in Tiananmen Square and witnessed the horror of a government attacking its own people. On August 7, 1998, she was in the basement of the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, with her two small children when al Qaeda bombed the building. After September 11, 2001, having just returned to the United States after years overseas, she responded to the atrocities in New York and Washington. She recounts her experiences living and working in China during the 1989 “Beijing Spring” and, fifteen years later, in Taiwan. In between came postings to Chennai, India, and Nairobi, where she helped Kenyan victims after the Embassy bombing. Huskey co-founded Global Adjustments in India, a cross-cultural training company, and the American International School of Chennai. Earlier, she was International Director of VSA Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington. For her work with disabled children in China she was awarded the Secretary of State’s Outstanding Volunteer Award for East Asia and the Pacific.
The Unofficial Diplomat
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Huskey, Joanne Grady Diplomats' spouses, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

A memoir of dramatic moments in recent history. On June 4, 1989, Joanne Grady Huskey was in Tiananmen Square and witnessed the horror of a government attacking its own people. On August 7, 1998, she was in the basement of the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, with her two small...

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This is a collective memoir of yesteryear when the Cold War was still icy. The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough analyzes the limitation of intermediate-range nuclear force missiles from the vantage point of history, drawing primarily on the reflections of the INF Treaty negotiators in 1988, immediately following the treaty’s completion and ratification, but also providing today’s retrospective judgments. It is increasingly difficult to invoke the waning years of the Cold War, with its ever-present fear that Soviet tank armies would thrust toward the English Channel, bringing nuclear war in their wake. This book brings that period to life through the writings of key participants in the successful negotiation of the INF Treaty: Ambassador MAYNARD W. GLITMAN – INF Negotiator and principal administration witness during Senate ratification testimony Ambassador JOHN WOODWORTH – INF deputy negotiator and DOD representative RONALD BARTEK – State Department representative on the INF Delegation and Principal Negotiator for the INF Treaty Elimination Protocol ROGER HARRISON – Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs and Chairman on the INF Interagency Group DAVID T. JONES – Special Assistant to Ambassador Glitman and Deputy for the State Department INF Treaty Ratification Task Force GEOFFREY LEVITT – State Department lawyer addressing end game elements of the INF Treaty LEO REDDY – State Department representative at the INF negotiations in Geneva. The book offers an astute balance between the assessments of senior negotiators; the “nuts and bolts” observations of those in the trenches; the twists that required the keenest of legal minds to untangle; and the political manipulations and maneuvers in the epic struggle that secured its ultimate ratification by the U.S. Senate. There was a touch of arrogance in the builders of the INF Treaty as they ventured into agreement with a disagreeable adversary. Historically, Moscow had never adhered to such an agreement; violations great and small with partners were the hallmark of arrangements with the Soviets. For the diplomats involved, the INF Treaty was a bright, shining, and potentially defining breakthrough in Cold War arms control with a hostile Moscow. The treaty’s unique elements achieved unprecedented negotiating objectives, weapons elimination, and verification, fulfilling hopes rather than fears.
The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough
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Jones, David T. Foreign relations, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

This is a collective memoir of yesteryear when the Cold War was still icy. The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough analyzes the limitation of intermediate-range nuclear force missiles from the vantage point of history, drawing primarily on the reflections of the INF Treaty negotiators in 1988, immediately following the treaty’s completion and ratification, but also providing...

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After the 2001 ouster of the Taliban from Afghanistan, the United States and its allies found themselves in a country devastated by a series of wars. This book looks at how, working with their Afghan counterparts, they engaged in a complex effort to rebuild security, development, and governance, all while fighting a low-intensity war. Drawing on his experience on the ground, Robert Kemp gives us a firsthand, unfiltered view of how U.S. military and civilian officers coped with a confusing, constantly changing situation along the border with Pakistan. It looks at how they developed programs and methods, such as Provincial Reconstruction Teams, while learning to work with the Afghans––and each other. Kemp looks at the nature of the insurgency–– how it gained momentum beginning in 2005, turning into a multifaceted, grinding, murky conflict against multiple groups: the Taliban, the Haqqani network, and Al Qaeda. It describes the nature of the border with Pakistan, the complex tribal and ethnic relations, rapid changes in Afghan society, poppy and opium production, corruption, and how the army and police developed. Each chapter analyzes the policies and practices involved, and offers lessons learned. Eastern Afghanistan is one of the most colorful, traditional, and unique areas left in the world. This book looks at what happened in 2004–2008, as the United States became heavily engaged there.
Counterinsurgency in Eastern Afghanistan 2004-2008
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Kemp, Robert Memoirs and Occasional Papers, United states, history

After the 2001 ouster of the Taliban from Afghanistan, the United States and its allies found themselves in a country devastated by a series of wars. This book looks at how, working with their Afghan counterparts, they engaged in a complex effort to rebuild security, development, and governance, all while...

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The life story of John Kormann, an adventurous diplomat, soldier, and intelligence officer, offers an inside view of significant events of the twentieth century. Following engaging boyhood experiences, paratrooper training, and combat in Europe in World War II, Special agent Kormann goes behind the lines to apprehend Nazi war criminals and uncover a mass grave. As an Army Counter Intelligence Corps field office commander in Berlin 1945–47, he searches for Martin Bormann and “Axis Sally,” rescues a German scientist from the Soviet NKVD in a case that made headlines, and reveals Russian espionage and other kidnapping efforts. In 1950, as a new Foreign Service officer, Kormann is placed in charge of three counties in Bavaria in the final days of the American occupation of Germany. Later he is involved in the abortive Hungarian Revolution, international efforts to deal with the Russians, the U-2 spy plane affair, and the Berlin Wall. He was political officer at Embassy Manila at the onset of the Marcos regime; officer-in-charge at Embassy Benghazi, Libya, when it was attacked and burned during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; deputy chief of mission at Embassy Cairo during the Kissinger Middle East “shuttle diplomacy”; and a member of Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush’s staff. Throughout his diplomatic service, Kormann remained active as an Army Reserve colonel, an expert in special operations, counterinsurgency, civil affairs, and intelligence. He retired after 35 years in government service, joined a presidential campaign staff, and then resumed an active life of painting, writing, and veterans’ affairs.
Echoes of a Distant Clarion
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Kormann, John, G. Diplomats and Diplomacy, International Relations - Diplomacy, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

The life story of John Kormann, an adventurous diplomat, soldier, and intelligence officer, offers an inside view of significant events of the twentieth century. Following engaging boyhood experiences, paratrooper training, and combat in Europe in World War II, Special agent Kormann goes behind the lines to apprehend Nazi war criminals...

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In 2001 Helen Lyman began writing about the more humorous incidents she witnessed as the wife of an American diplomat. She observed the overseas life with a somewhat detached and wry view, through the prism of someone who never thought of herself as being born to the trappings of diplomatic life. Her book recounts incidents from South Korea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Washington and stories about the famous—Nelson Mandela, Al and Tipper Gore, Hillary Clinton—and the not so famous, whom she loved, such as her first grade students in Nigeria. She wrote about her own peripatetic professional life, moving back and forth between the United States and abroad. From housewife to family counselor, to teacher, to computer trainer for the State Department, she records the human touches of each of those roles and in the process her own development. Just as she was looking forward to a rich retirement life, illness struck. Cancer came in 1987, with all its attendant exigencies, followed by seven years of remission and ending with cancer’s return. In those later years she wrote about her early life, her family, the loss of a child, and her dreams for herself and her country. The work is thus not a traditional memoir, but a rich journey. Near the end of her life, she turned to poetry and recorded her final thoughts in that way. Born in 1935 in San Francisco, California, to parents who had fled Nazi Germany, Helen Lyman graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Social Welfare. After marriage to Princeton Lyman, she worked as a bank teller in Boston, Massachusetts, while her husband attended graduate school. She acquired a master’s degree in counseling from Bowie State College and worked as a family counselor for seven years in Washington, D.C. Posted overseas with her husband, she worked as a first grade teacher in Ethiopia and Nigeria. In 1991, the State Department hired her as a computer trainer. Her work for the State Department took her to China, El Salvador, Turkey, South Korea, Israel, Swaziland, and Botswana, as well as South Africa, where her husband was ambassador. The Lymans have three daughters and eleven grandchildren. Helen Lyman began work on this memoir in 2001. She died from cancer in 2008.
Not to the Manner Born
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Lyman, Helen Biography, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

In 2001 Helen Lyman began writing about the more humorous incidents she witnessed as the wife of an American diplomat. She observed the overseas life with a somewhat detached and wry view, through the prism of someone who never thought of herself as being born to the trappings of diplomatic...

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