Association for Diplomatic Newsletter Studies and Training Spring 2003

Message from Rating the State Department: President Ken Brown: The FAC Task Force Report Card Meeting the ADST is one of eleven organiza- This independent assessment by tions that make up the Foreign Affairs the nonpartisan Foreign Affairs Council Need for Funds Council (FAC), a nonpartisan umbrella details what has been accomplished in group concerned about U.S. diplomatic these areas during Secretary Powell’s e are readiness. In March the FAC issued its first two years in office. The accomplish- heartened task force report entitled Secretary Colin ments are substantial, even historic. by the Powell’s State Department: An Independent But, while this assessment gives credit W recent reaffirmation of Assessment. The complete text can be where credit is due, this is primarily a the importance of found at www.diplomatsonline.org. forward-looking report that outlines the ADST’s programs to unfinished business facing the President, FAC Report Executive Summary those we serve. Like Congress, Secretary of State, and rank- other nonprofit organi- Upon becoming Secretary of and-file employees as they work to zations, ADST has been hit hard by the State, COLIN POWELL took charge of an strengthen the diplomatic component of decline in the economy. In February, organization weakened by years of U.S. national security. The key chal- Board Chairman PAT LYNCH and I budget cuts and hampered by antiquated lenges include: launched a special appeal to ADST operating procedures. Drawing upon Ú members and to participants in the recent studies and recommendations obtaining a sustained infusion of Foreign Affairs Oral History Program and a beginning of some reform imple- resources to strengthen diplomatic seeking contributions to help us meet a mentation, he undertook a wide range of readiness; Ú large impending budget deficit and steps aimed at equipping the State filling remaining staffing gaps with pursue an opportunity to put the oral Department and U.S. Foreign Service to talented people who have received history collection on the Library of meet the foreign policy challenges of the necessary training; Ú Congress website. With the incentive of 21st century. Viewed most broadly, those harnessing the power of the informa- matching challenges from the DELAVAN steps included: tion revolution to serve America’s foreign policy interests; and LOEB Foundations, many of our Ú seeking a sustained infusion of Ú upgrading overseas facilities to members, oral history participants, and resources for personnel, information reduce the vulnerability of our members of the board of directors and technology, security, and facilities; diplomats to terrorist attacks; advisory council responded with great Ú working to change the organizational Ú building a broader base of domestic generosity. We cite the names of all who culture of the State Department and public understanding for the work have done so as of May 28 on pages 4 Foreign Service; and 5 of this newsletter and look forward Ú of diplomacy; improving State’s public diplomacy, Ú revitalizing public diplomacy efforts to a generous response from others. public affairs, and congressional to influence foreign audiences; More help is sorely needed. While relations efforts. (Continued on page 4) significant progress has been made toward overcoming the deficit, we have 400 Additional Oral Histories Now Available on CD-ROMs not yet attained that goal or been able to establish a special fund for oral history. Since the release in August 2000 of ADST’s Frontline Diplomacy CD-ROM, To those ends we are vigorously pursuing STUART KENNEDY, director of the ADST’s Foreign Affairs Oral History Program, has additional grants from foundations and continued to interview former foreign affairs personnel, adding to the body of 893 other sources and are promoting the sale interviews available on that first CD-ROM. ADST has now produced a PC- of ADST products. But we continue to compatible CD-ROM supplement that records more than 260 additional Foreign rely on the engagement and support of Affairs Oral Histories. In addition, we have produced a PC-compatible CD-ROM those who know us best. ADST is unique containing over 140 Spouse Oral Histories. Unlike Frontline Diplomacy, the new in its programs that tell the story of CD-ROMs do not have their own search engines, but they are searchable through American diplomacy. We are deeply your computer’s own built-in search functions. Both CD-ROMs can be ordered grateful to all who make our work from ADST for $50 each plus shipping, using the page 7 order form. possible. 2 - Spring 2003 Newsletter The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training State Department’s Diplomacy- Technology Synergy

At the February 13, 2003, We train our IT professionals to meeting of the ADST Board of Direc- support an infrastructure that is highly tors, ROBERT NOVAK, dean of the Foreign sophisticated and provides rapid, At May 9 Foreign Affairs Day (from left): Service Institute’s School of Applied reliable, and secure information to our Marie Kux, Director General Ruth Davis, Information Technology (SAIT), diplomats in the field and in Washing- Foreign Service Cup recipient Dennis Kux, captivated his listeners with remarks on ton. When our diplomats know that the and DACOR President Bob Funseth “The Synergy between Diplomacy and information systems they use ensure Technology.” The following excerpts are confidentiality, that they can have adapted from his presentation: confidence in the integrity of the data, Dennis Kux Receives and that these systems provide reliability Technology and diplomacy make and availability, we have a created Foreign Service Cup interesting bedfellows. Over the decades powerful synergy between technology and centuries many changes in transpor- and diplomacy. Though our new-hire IT On May 9 at the annual Foreign tation and communication have relent- professionals come to us with experience Affairs Day at the State Department, lessly altered the traditional nature of and a solid background in technology, DACOR President BOB FUNSETH diplomacy, diminishing the relevance of they still require 17–26 weeks of presented the prestigious Foreign distance and emphasizing the impor- training before they can be sent to their Service Cup to one of ADST’s own, tance of time. Nothing comparable to first posts. DENNIS KUX. DACOR awards the cup computer-driven information technol- Most officers, our end-users, have each year to a diplomat who has made a ogy (IT) has previously arisen to pro- at their fingertips a system that can significant contribution to foreign affairs duce such a potentially transformative reach 40,000 foreign affairs employees in retirement. The Foreign Affairs Day impact on the nature of diplomacy. worldwide via e-mail and give them program notes described Dennis Kux as When the world can watch events almost unrestricted access to the “a well-known public intellectual” unfold on TV in real time, when vast internet. Similar advances have been whose wide-ranging efforts included amounts of information are a keystroke made in our classified systems. SAIT elucidating for “often skeptical audi- away, we must change the traditional trains officers to improve information ences the role of U.S. diplomats in tools of diplomacy. access and make that information managing the great challenges of our Under the enthusiastic guidance manageable. New officers now receive time.” of Secretary COLIN POWELL, SAIT is the laptop computers in their orientation; Kux is the author of The United lead organization supporting the State from day one they can use technology to States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disen- Department’s goal of having a fully manage their work, integrating it into chanted Allies (Johns Hopkins University trained and productive workforce. The the culture. Press with Wilson Center Press, 2001), State Department’s information tech- SAIT conducted over $8 million an authoritative and timely work nology budget, which includes IT in training services in FY02, delivering published in the ADST-DACOR book training, would get a 5 percent increase an estimated 300,000 hours of IT- series, which received a “Special to $939 million for fiscal 2004 in the centric training. We reached over 3000 Citation” from the American Academy president’s budget plan. students—end users, IT professionals, of Diplomacy. (The book is available Training our IT professionals to Foreign Service Nationals, and US from ADST’s web site or by using the maintain and sustain our information direct-hire employees —at our Northern form on page 7.) technology platform and the tools it Virginia facilities, Regional Training A former ambassador to Côte supports is an essential part of our Centers in Frankfurt and Fort Lauder- d’Ivoire who served 39 years in the mission. Providing the skills all State dale, and 50 overseas missions. We Foreign Service, Dennis was executive Department employees need to access have also significantly upgraded our director of ADST in 1993–94 and is and leverage those tools is another. distance-learning capability— essen- now a Senior Policy Scholar at the tially putting over 500 course titles at Woodrow Wilson Center. our customers’ fingertips on their office systems and even via the internet on Planting the Seeds for the Next Generation of FSOs. their home systems. This year we For the first time, the Office of Resource Management gave copies of ADST’s illustrated anticipate delivering over 350,000 hours Brief History of United States Diplomacy to two groups of State Department children of training, about 30 percent of it attending this year’s “Bring Your Child to Work Day” on Thursday, April 24, 2003. The directed to new hires under the Diplo- fifty lucky recipients will now have a better understanding of the history of American matic Readiness Initiative. diplomacy. (If you don’t already have a copy yourself, you can order it on our web site or using the form on page 7.) The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Spring 2003 Newsletter - 3

FSI DIRECTOR'S COLUMN State Steps Up Efforts by Ambassador Katherine Peterson to Reduce Staffing Gaps

Ambassador RUTH DAVIS, director onsistent with Secretary Powell’s general of the Foreign Service and State emphasis on changing the State Department director of personnel, CDepartment’s culture, demand updates us on the recruitment and for training continues to increase at the expanded interviewing techniques. To hiring of talented employees. Following Foreign Service Institute. As a result of support priorities, including Iraq and are highlights taken from her statement the Diplomatic Readiness Initiative Afghanistan, we have further enhanced on the FY 2005 Performance Plan of the (DRI), training is, and will be, a growth our language programs. Human Resource Bureau (HR): industry at FSI for the foreseeable future. FSI thus anticipates an ongoing training As you can see, we are very busy and, The Diplomatic Readiness demand for the next 25–30 years as frankly, have outgrown the capacity of Initiative (DRI) has reduced the these additional hires progress through our beautiful facility. We are in the early Department’s enduring staffing gaps, their careers. In Fiscal Year 2002, the stages of planning for expansion of the particularly in vital overseas DRI’s first year, FSI experienced a 25 FSI, with construction likely to begin in positions. Continued implementation in percent increase in training enrollments 2005. As always, we remain committed FY03 and follow-through in FY04 will over FY01. Orientation enrollments to delivering the highest quality training bring us even closer to the personnel alone increased 42 percent over FY01. that our customers from the Depart- complement we need for better training Strategic priorities. Our strategic ment of State and over forty other U.S. in languages, leadership, and priorities are geared toward sustaining government agencies require. management. However, steadily increas- and institutionalizing the gains we have ing requirements, especially for positions made as an organization in leadership to support border security flowing from and management, tradecraft, and the 9/11 attacks, have rendered inad- language training so that they cannot be equate the original DRI plan to hire lost or ignored in the future. Clyde Taylor and Bob 1,158 new employees above attrition Our accomplishments are numerous: over this three-year period. n We have delivered mandatory Funseth Join Board In FY05, HR requests the funding leadership and management training to of 221 new positions above attrition to over 1,300 employees since this Welcome to ADST’s latest ex- implement “DRI plus”—to pay for program’s initial rollout; officio board members, CLYDE TAYLOR, unanticipated requirements such as n We have implemented a new executive director of the Una Chapman staffing embassies Baghdad and Kabul, Senior Executive Threshold Seminar for Cox Foundation, and ROBERT L. increased emphasis on border security, newly promoted seniors—the last of our FUNSETH, president of Diplomatic and the Middle East Partnership, and HIV/ mandatory leadership courses; Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR). AIDS initiatives; to improve the n The FSI Learning Management Both organizations are longtime sources delivery of medical services, primarily to System will provide more distance of support for ADST activities. In a hardship posts abroad; and to provide learning opportunities through FSI distinguished Foreign Service career additional infrastructure support. “worldwide schoolhouse.” Electronic spanning thirty-four years, Clyde Taylor With only modest increases in HR partnerships with other organizations will was assigned to five posts, visited some staff levels since FY02, the Department significantly expand FSI’s reach. sixty-five additional countries, and has had to reengineer its hiring mecha- n We have added 260 students to served as ambassador to Paraguay. In nisms. Sustaining increased hiring levels our language distance learning programs. Bob Funseth’s outstanding forty-one- will require us to further expand the use n In collaboration with the Army year Foreign Service career, he served in of technology-driven outreach and War College in Carlisle, six State Tehran, Tabriz, Beirut, Bordeaux, and application programs, to reach the best Department employees will be enrolled Ottawa. While in the Refugee Bureau, candidates at the best possible overall in the next Master in Strategic Studies he successfully negotiated with Hanoi cost for the taxpayer. program, to start this fall. At the comple- the 1989 release and resettlement of Foreign Service recruiting efforts tion of the two-year on-line program, 100,000 Vietnamese political prisoners. under the DRI so far have produced participants will earn the master’s He also served as State Department vast numbers of exceptionally skilled degree. spokesman under Secretary HENRY candidates for all skill groups. In FY05 n Homeland Security–related KISSINGER. we will continue to emphasize minority training has had special emphasis for us. ADST looks forward to continu- outreach and refine our outreach to We have expanded Consular Training ing its close association with both new management/administrative officers and and have special CIA and CT segments. board members and with the Cox those already skilled in critical foreign As part of the training we have also Foundation and DACOR. languages. 4 - Spring 2003 Newsletter The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Consular or Diplomatic? E-mail Query Comes to ADST

A sample of the unusual inquiries description of the uniform which arrived gold. I imagine that ADST receives is this request from today, I’m beginning to wonder whether it is the British and NICHOLAS KEEGAN, a retired UK civil a diplomatic or a consular uniform. First, I American regula- servant: note that the owner of the uniform, John tions were broadly I saw on one of your WebPages that Campbell White, wore it in 1915/16 when the same. If so, this the ADST has various exhibits, one of he was Second Secretary in the US would make Mr which is a 19th century US consular Legation in Petrograd. At that time, the US White’s uniform uniform and sabre. I believe that although Diplomatic and Consular Services were diplomatic rather he frowned on the idea of consular uni- separate services until they were unified than consular. forms, Thomas Jefferson permitted US into the US Foreign Service by the Rogers Mr. Keegan consuls to wear naval uniforms. Would it Act of 1924. In 1915/16, a Second promised to do be possible to obtain a photograph of the Secretary would almost certainly have been more research and ADST uniform and sabre which I could of diplomatic, rather than consular, rank. let us know what he include in my thesis? Secondly, I have had a look at the finds out about the A flurry of e-mails followed as we British uniform regulations for the period uniform. We’ll keep sent Mr. Keegan information on the old and see that the uniforms for diplomats had you posted. consular uniform (jacket, trousers, hat, gold embroidery on the collar, cuffs, etc., and sabre) in our collection from the and gold embroidered seams on the early part of the 20th century. We also trousers. Consuls had silver embroidery on took photos and forwarded them to Mr. their uniforms. Mr White’s uniform has Delavan and Loeb Challen Keegan, prompting the following reply: David M. Adamson Gilbert J. Donahue Henry Alle Now that I have had time to look at Andrew F. Antippas Robert W. Duemling Robert Hop the photos you sent me, together with the Richard Arndt Robert B. Duncan Roy M. Hu FAC Report Executive Robert Asher Thomas P. H. Dunlop William E. Betty Atherton William Eagleton Karl F. Inde Summary G. Michael Bache William B. Edmondson Harvey E. J ADST Bookshelf Robert E. Barbour Hermann F. Eilts Charles K. (Continued from page 1) Quentin R. Bates Gordon W. Evans Stephen T. New Acquisitions Chester E. Beaman Raymond C. Ewing George F. Jo & JOHN N. HUTCHISON, The Road to Stephen P. Belcher Herbert Fierst James R. Jo Anywhere and Life is Just a Bowl of Ú better aligning consular staffing and Natale H. Bellocchi Thomas W. Fina John H. Ke Anecdotes (self-published, 1998 and Margaret Bennett William H.G. FitzGerald Robert V. K procedures with the realities of the Maurice R. Bernbaum Alta Fowler Edward L. K 1999), the autobiography of an outspo- post-9/11/01 world; Kerem Bilge Richard K. Fox Francis M. ken USIA-based Foreign Service officer Ú improving the State Department’s J.D. Bindenagel Robert E. Fritts Myron Kra whose life included many other occupa- relations with the Congress; and Philip Birnbaum Richard Funkhouser Max & Est tions and memorable experiences, along Ú strengthening the Foreign Service to James K. Bishop Peter W. Galbraith Donald B. K with a collection of vignettes, combin- Cole Blasier Samuel R. Gammon, III Joseph E. L meet the needs of 21st century William Bodde, Jr. Robert K. Geis George W. ing fact and fiction, inspired by those diplomacy. Richard W. Boehm Frederick E. Gilbert Howard H. experiences. Failure to complete work on these Thomas D. Boyatt Frank R. Golino Steve Ledo & KISHAN S. RANA, Bilateral Diplomacy Charles W. Bray III Richard Gookin James F. Le initiatives would have serious conse- (DiploHandbooks, 2002), an incisive Gordon S. Brown Herbert Gordon Barnett B. quences for America’s national security: Kenneth L. Brown Stephen Grant Reuben Lev guide combining lessons from practical a weakening of the fight against inter- Edward Brynn Joseph N. Greene Herbert Le diplomatic experience with insights national terrorism, less effectiveness in James R. Bullington Robert E. Gribbin Samuel W. from the scholarly literature, written by promoting peace and stability in regions John A. Bushnell Marc Grossman John A. Lin a former Indian envoy to Algeria, Ruth E. Butler Brandon Grove, Jr. William H. of vital interests, hampered manage- Czechoslovakia, Kenya, Mauritius, and Samuel Butterfield Kenneth A. Guenther Wingate Ll ment of diplomatic relations with other Patricia M. Byrne Gloria Shaw Hamilton Winston Lo Germany, consul general in San Fran- nations and international institutions, William D. Calderhead William C. Hamilton Roman Lot cisco, and author of Inside Diplomacy, an and poorer promotion and protection of James W. Chamberlin Herbert J. Hansell Alan W. Lu acclaimed study of the Indian diplo- other American interests overseas Henry L. Clarke Faizan Haq Walter A. L matic system. (Tip: check out Robert G. Cleveland Alan Hardy LaRue R. L (including U.S. business interests). www.diplomacy.edu.) Fred A. Coffey, Jr. F. Allen Harris Patricia Ga Successful completion of these Irvin D. Coker Jane S. Hart William B. & WILLIAM S. SHEPARD, Foreign Service reforms, on the other hand, would Frances D. Cook Theresa A. Healy Dayton S. M Tales(Xlibris, 2002), a work of fiction constitute a revolution in diplomatic Michael W. Cotter John J. Helble William Mc comprising twenty short stories, mostly Sally Grooms Cowal Gerald B. Helman John W. Mc affairs that would make America a Sylvia E. Czayo Douglas Henderson George C. M set in U.S. Embassy locations abroad, stronger, more secure nation that is Nathaniel Davis Lambert Heyniger James D. M featuring each Foreign Service specialty better equipped to navigate the 21st Arthur Day Irvin Hicks Francis Ter and including one award-winning century international landscape. Jonathan Dean George B. High Roy M. Me mystery. Henry Dearborn David I. Hitchcock, Jr. Philip Merr Olcott H. Deming Lewis Hoffacker Kristie Mill The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Spring 2003 Newsletter - 5 ORAL HISTORY NEWS Under Secretaries being edited, and will be added to our Canadians Consult Us Interviewed oral history collection. We have received a query from In addition, Stu Kennedy has Canada’s Retired Heads of Mission In March ADST conducted a begun a separate series of interviews Association (RHOMA) on how to set up roundtable discussion of present and with Tom Pickering. They should an oral history program. We are enthusi- former under secretaries of state for provide a fascinating chronicle of a astic about the possibility that the political affairs. At the behest of MARC major player in the diplomatic game. Canadians will develop a program similar GROSSMAN, the present under secretary, to ours and are passing along our STU KENNEDY moderated a two-hour Bunche Project Update experiences. The British Diplomatic Oral discussion on the role of these under History Programme at Churchill College, ADST Senior Fellow JIM secretaries. Included were JOSEPH SISCO, Cambridge, was our first such sister DANDRIDGE, who heads the Bunche DAVID NEWSOM, ROBERT KIMMITT, organization. THOMAS PICKERING, and Marc Grossman. Legacy project to record oral histories of PETER TARNOFF was interviewed by minority Foreign Service and other telephone. Participating as the audience foreign affairs officers, also serves as the and asking questions were members of Washington regional executive director the Secretariat. The roundtable was for the upcoming RALPH J. BUNCHE videotaped and transcribed, is now CENTENARY. ADST figures prominently in forty-five of the program’s projects, to nges: A Generous Response be held from August 2003 to August 2004. en Holmes Paul D. Molineaux David T. Schneider Jim hopes to retrieve a series of pper Langhorne A. Motley Gerald W. Scott uffington George F. Muller Robert E. Service oral history interviews of black ambassa- Hutchinson Leonardo Neher David Shear dors, commissioned by the Phelps Stokes Springtime at ADST (from left): James Ward, erfurth Harvey F. Nelson, Jr. Walter J. Sherwin Fund, for inclusion in the Bunche Stu Kennedy, and Jessica Puglisi Jester Ronald E. Neumann Leonard G. Shurtleff Legacy Project. He is also pushing ahead Johnson Robert L. Nichols SIBSCO, LLC to prepare by August 2004 a short Johnson Victor Niemeyer Derek S. Singer ones W. Haven North Herman T. Skofield documentary based on the minority Interns Enhance ADST ones William C. Olson Ralph Stuart Smith officers’ oral histories. Together with Spring interns JESSICA PUGLISI of ean John W. Ott Richard J. Smith ADST Executive Director VEDA ENGEL, Keeley Robert I. Owen Stephen Solarz Jim is working to establish coordinating Mary Baldwin College and JAMES WARD Killham Kenneth W. Parent Richard H. Solomon procedures with the Library of Congress of the University of Colorado came to Kinnelly Richard B. Parker Moncrieff J. Spear to put all of ADST’s oral histories on the ADST from American University’s tzer Edward L. Peck Wells Stabler Washington Semester Program. Each her Krebs Jack Perry Paul K. Stahnke Web. Kursch Donald K. Petterson Steven Steiner performed extraordinary service on Lake Christopher H. Phillips Thomas Stern Spotlight on Volunteer book manuscripts and other valuable Landau John D. Pielemeier John Todd Stewart tasks. Both saw ADST as a chance to . Lange Peter G. Piness Philip H. Stoddard Dave Reuther pursue their interests in diplomacy and ogar Michael Pistor Ulrich A. Straus The orange-colored cover letter the Foreign Service. onard James A. Placke Robert D. Stuart, Jr. Lester Sol Polansky Jack A. Sulser means another researched and edited Jessica loved “observing the v David H. Popper Emory C. Swank transcript has returned from DAVID Foreign Service from the inside” and vin Dwight J. Porter Howell S. Teeple REUTHER for final processing. After said her experiences at ADST had Lewis James M. Potts Harry E.T. Thayer editing for the Oral History Program “refueled [her] ultimate desire to work nehan Russell O. Prickett Margaret Joy Tibbetts whetted his appetite, Reuther recently for the State Department.” As a Littlewood John P. Reddington Vladimir I. Toumanoff loyd Leo Reddy John H. Trattner added oral history interviewing. “Upon student of history, James “was drawn to ord William E. Reed Oliver L. Troxel, Jr. retirement in 1997, I returned to ADST’s emphasis on the preservation tsberg David Reuther James L. Tull academia for an advanced degree. It of the diplomatic past.” ADST pro- ukens John Richardson, Jr. Hendrick Van Oss quickly became obvious that scholars vided him, he said, “as much intellec- Lundy Rozanne L. Ridgway Ronald F. Venezia were missing important background to tual and academic capital as profes- Lutkins Nina T. Robbins George S. Vest ates Lynch Owen W. Roberts Julius W. Walker historical events and that knowledge- sional grounding.” He hoped his ADST Macomber Stephen H. Rogers George Ward able Foreign Service retirees didn’t internship would be “a first step toward Mak William A. Root Joseph C. Wheeler realize the value of their experiences,” a Foreign Service career.” cAfee Gunther Rosinus Lewis M. White Reuther recently said. Before each Summing up the ADST intern- cDonald Edward M. Rowell John C. Whitehead interview, Dave works with the inter- ship, Jessica said the “wonderful McGhee Robert J. Ryan, Sr. Jean Wilkowski McHale Frederick H. Sacksteder Larry Williamson viewee to outline a history of assign- people” there made it “a fantastic ry McNamara Harold H. Saunders Michael G. Wygant ments. “The creative part is working experience,” and James found the staff elbourne J. Robert Schaetzel Parker D. Wyman with an interviewee on sensitive “nothing short of awesome.” They will rill Howard B. Schaffer Joseph A. Yager subjects without crossing a line, yet be missed. ler Teresita C. Schaffer David E. Zweifel (Continued on page 8) 6 - Spring 2003 Newsletter The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training PUBLICATIONS

ADST Creates New Series Another book adopted for our problems and perils arising from the ADST has inaugurated a new series, DEFIANT DIPLOMACY: [Iran-Iraq] war served as timely grist to book series separate from the long- HENRIK KAUFFMANN, DENMARK, the mills of the Security Council, giving established ADST-DACOR Diplomats AND THE UNITED STATES IN WAR the five permanent members opportuni- and Diplomacy series. The “Memoirs AND EARLY COLD WAR 1939–1958 ties to work together more effectively and Occasional Papers Series” will by Danish diplomat Bo Lidegaard, will something that would have seemed feature diplomatic memoirs and related be published in fall or winter by Peter wildly improbable in 1980”; the New works that may not command a suffi- Lang. Also next winter, the University York Times—“a ground-breaking book cient market to meet the financial needs Press of Florida will publish UNCLE written by a rising star of the American of trade and scholarly presses. With SAM IN BARBARY: A DIPLOMATIC diplomatic service who was himself support from the authors, ADST will HISTORY, RICHARD B. PARKER’s second intimately involved in the Beekman arrange publication of books accepted series book. Now approaching the Place negotiations”; CHOICE—“His for the new series by Writers Club Press contract negotiation stage with one of analysis is thoughtful and objective in of iUniverse, Inc., on a “print-on- two interested presses is WILSON the best tradition of the practitioner demand” basis. The first book in the DIZARD’s story of the United States scholar”; and Foreign Affairs—“an ably new series, AMERICAN DIPLOMATS Information Agency, INVENTING written diplomatic history that will be by WILLIAM MORGAN and STUART PUBLIC DIPLOMACY. referred to for years to come by those KENNEDY, is currently in production. Other works at various stages who want to understand how the As part of the service that ADST include a retelling of the vital French United Nations is meant to operate.” will provide each series author, we have covert role in the American Revolution, At the time of the book’s publica- arranged for an experienced professional five memoirs, a firsthand account of the tion, Cameron Hume had returned as editor, MARGARET BENDER, to guide each INF negotiations, a history of the minister-counselor for political affairs to future book through the contracting, Foreign Service, and an account of U.S. the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, editing, and production stages. intervention in Haiti. Stay tuned! where he had twice served during the Margaret’s own Diplomats and Diplo- events recounted in the book. He has macy Series book, Foreign at Home and since published Ending Mozambique’s Away: Foreign-Born Wives in the U.S. UN Account and a Wife’s War (USIP 1994) and served as U.S. Foreign Service, was published by the Memoir Newly Available ambassador to Algeria (the subject of Writers Club Press, where it is now an his next book, adopted for the ADST- iUniverse best-seller. U.S. Ambassador to South Africa DACOR series and currently at the Interested authors should contact CAMERON R. HUME has given ADST a publishers’ query stage). the ADST office generous supply of his groundbreaking study The United Nations, Iran, and Iraq: Another book now available from How Peacemaking Changed (cloth, $20, ADST is HELEN RODMAN’s From This Diplomats & Diplomacy Series Indiana University Day Forward: Memoirs of an Attaché Wife The ADST-DACOR Diplomats Press, 1994). All (paperback, and Diplomacy Series is taking a break proceeds from sales $15.95, from book launches this spring while of this still-timely Brandylane Press, gearing up for the coming fall, winter, and important 1999), copies of and spring seasons. Although some examination of the which Mrs. publication dates and prices remain changing role of the Rodman has “estimated,” two major new books are UN Security generously set: HOWARD SCHAFFER’s ELLSWORTH Council are ear- donated for the BUNKER: GLOBAL TROUBLE- marked for the benefit of ADST’s SHOOTER, VIETNAM HAWK, the benefit of ADST’s book publishing publishing first biography of this diplomat’s diplo- program. program. The story begins with her mat, will be out in November from the The book traces changes in wartime marriage to Bill Rodman, a University of North Carolina Press; and Security Council diplomacy as it dealt soldier and an officer who saw action next February, the University of Wash- with a succession of conflicts involving with the Third Armored Division in ington Press will publish ULRICH A. Iran and Iraq over 45 years, including France, Belgium, and Germany. Her STRAUS’s THE ANGUISH OF SUR- Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait and a lively, readable story continues with the RENDER: JAPANESE POWs IN detailed account of the negotiations that personal and diplomatic adventures she WORLD WAR II, the first time anyone led to the authorization of Operation shared with him and their family after has told this surprising story in English. Desert Storm. Hume’s book was en- he joined the Foreign Agricultural Details will appear in the Fall issue of dorsed by scholars (e.g., SHIBLEY Service and traces their lives, through the ADST Newsletter. Meanwhile, TELHAMI) and diplomats (e.g., THOMAS triumphs and family tragedy, in Canada, members who place advance orders for R. PICKERING and Sir CRISPIN TICKELL). It Argentina, Central America, Australia, the Schaffer and Straus books using the received prominent attention in The Mexico, and England. You can order form on page 7 will earn a special early- Economist—“Hume shows how the both books using the form on page 7. bird discount. The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Spring 2003 Newsletter - 7

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