Sometimes it just ain’t easy working for the State Department. If you go through the lengthy history of the Foreign Service…
James A. Baker served as the Secretary of State during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1992,…
OK, when you think about State Department types — if you think about them at all — chances are they’re…
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The Foreign Service has undergone major reforms and tinkering over the past century, so much so that people often joked…
Oliver Platt is a talented character actor who has appeared in major blockbusters (X-Men: First Class), critically acclaimed TV series…
Pakistan after independence was a strange creation: the capital, Islamabad, and most of the power were located in the west…
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One of the great dilemmas in foreign policy is when and whether to negotiate with one’s enemies. Will a dialogue…
Despite getting extremely close to agreeing to negotiations to avert hostilities, the U.S. and Japan failed to make peace and…