Before being absorbed and restructured by the State Department in 1999, the United States Information Agency (USIA) was an independent…
As General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev authorized the release of thousands of Soviet Jews who wanted to leave the…
George Frost Kennan was, and still remains, a very controversial and legendary figure in American diplomatic history. As a historian,…
After the 1949 defeat of the Chinese Nationalists at the hands of Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army, the newly-proclaimed People’s…
U.S. inter-agency coordination on countering terrorism was limited, for bureaucratic and technical reasons, prior to the mid-1980s. As hijackings and…
The end of World War II ushered in an era of intense arms competition between the Soviet Union and the…
Robert Gerhard Neumann (1916–1999), seen at right with wife Marlen, served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia.…
The words “I am sorry” can be difficult to say and sometimes even more painful to accept. Working as representatives…
On March 23rd, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, signaling a massive paradigm shift in U.S. policy…
The shock of terrorist attacks in Europe in the past decade, notably in Paris, London, and Madrid, sadly recall an…