As a teenage daughter of a Foreign Service Officer who moved his family from country to country every so often,…
It is impossible to understand the War in Afghanistan, now the longest war in American history, much less the motives…
In December 2001, as per the Bonn Agreement signed in reaction to the September 11 attacks, the North Atlantic Treaty…
Just minutes after returning from his three-year exile, former Philippine Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated at the Manila airport…
Mozambique in the 1980s was a country in the midst of a bloody civil war, when at least 100,000 people…
For more than 30 years, it has been a political force in Lebanon and beyond, at times praised for its…
The Vietnam War remains one of the most contentious foreign policy issues in American history. U.S. military involvement was initially…
Scotland, Catalonia, Northern Ireland, Quebec –Western regions with distinct histories and linguistic identities, which have at times also experienced violent…
This is the story of how a corrupt multinational oil company, a self-centered dictator, lingering ethnic tensions, and lack of…
Charles “Chip” Bohlen (August 30, 1904 – January 1, 1974) served in the Foreign Service from 1929 to 1969 and…