Life After Foreign Service
Retirement from the Foreign Service or USAID rarely meant slowing down. For many officers, it became a second chapter full…
Frank Wisner
MY FOREIGN SERVICE ROLE MODEL- – AMBASSADOR FRANK WISNER by Kenneth M Quinn My wartime experience as a Foreign Service…
Distinguished Service: Lydia Chapin Kirk, Partner in Diplomacy, 1896-1984
An intimate glimpse into life in the diplomatic corps, recalling pre-World War II London, Moscow during the early days of…
Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords: 1995 – 2025
About The Project To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords (DPA), the Association for Diplomatic Studies…
American Diplomats
Diplomats provide the first line of America’s defense as they formulate and implement our country’s foreign policy. Too often, the…
Quiet Diplomacy
In Quiet Diplomacy, Armin Meyer recounts and analyzes the wide-ranging experiences and lessons learned in his remarkable life and extraordinary…
Not to the Manner Born
In 2001 Helen Lyman began writing about the more humorous incidents she witnessed as the wife of an American diplomat.…
The Unofficial Diplomat
A memoir of dramatic moments in recent history. On June 4, 1989, Joanne Grady Huskey was in Tiananmen Square and…
United States-Vietnam Reconciliation
Based on over forty years’ consideration of Vietnam’s history, the author aims (a) to put the Vietnam War within the…
Colorado
Contributions by Coloradans in the Foreign Service People born, raised, or educated in Colorado have made important contributions to America’s…