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Foreign service officers are often subject to circumstances beyond their control. Such was the case when a diplomatic quarrel occurred…
Sometimes, politics involves standing for one’s values, even if it goes against the beliefs of the system in charge and…
Diplomatic history is a fascinating field full of peace conferences, negotiations, and summits; but it also includes dozens of other…
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Haiti has been plagued with instability for much of its existence, despite being the second country in the Americas to…
Next to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, the Iranian seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 and…
During 1998 and 1999, Lawrence Rossin found himself working in the disputed region of the Balkans. Having previously worked in…
Should the United States ever have gone to war in Vietnam? Nearly fifty years after the last American troops were…
There’s never a dull moment in the life of a USAID social anthropologist! The foreign service can indeed present a…