The fall of the Soviet Union upset long-established power dynamics, leaving East and Central Europe, in particular, in uncharted waters.…
Iraqi Kurds are scheduled to hold a referendum on independence in September, 2017. The Kurdistan region of about five million…
From its inception, the Soviet Union became the first state in the world to actively attempt to eliminate religion from society.…
After the 1985 Geneva Summit, where President Ronald Reagan and leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, met for the first…
Traditionally, Secretaries of State receive a personal protection detail from the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). However, Henry Kissinger…
Former Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard delivered over 800 highly classified documents to the Israeli government over a 17-month…
Life in the Foreign Service certainly has its advantages – working in often exotic locales, meeting fascinating people, being a…
Among the challenges of serving as a U.S. diplomat in the USSR during the Cold War years of 1945 to…
As General Secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev authorized the release of thousands of Soviet Jews who wanted to leave the…
Indira Gandhi was one of the most powerful women of the 20th Century, whose initial rise to power in 1966…