CIAO DATE: 05/04
Volume IX, Number 2, 2004
Special Reports
America's Other Army: Inside the Foreign Service by Nicholas Kralev
Part 1: The Secretary of State: I'm on the President's Agenda
Part 2: The Politics of Diplomacy: Diplomats Fight Their Stuffed-White-Shirt Image
Part 3: The Conduct of Diplomacy: Diplomacy Adapts to New Threats
Part 4: Public Diplomacy: Cultural Diplomacy Pays Off, Envoys Say
Part 5: Consular Affairs: Consular Services Changed After 9/11
Part 6: Diplomatic Security: Embassy Bombings Spur Security Boost. Diplomats Abroad Kept Insulated
Part 7: Diplomacy as a Career
Part 8: Life as a Diplomat
Commentary & Analysis
A Federation for Iraq? by Sam C. Holliday
Iraq: Our Honor, Humanity, and Self Interest Require That We Stay the Course by Norvell B. DeAtkine
The Hole in the Doughnut by Carlton S. Coon
The Impact of Christian Zionism on American Policy by William N. Dale
Does Military Spending Matter? Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1989 -1999 by Joseph P. Smaldone
U.S. National Security Doctrines Historically Viewed: A Commentary by Francis P. Sempa
Is There Still a West? (A Conference Report) by William Anothony Hay
An American Empire? An Essay on the United States as a Global Power by William Anothony Hay
The Bush Doctrine and U.S. Intervention by Chris J. Dolan
A Look Back
The Better Red Than Dead Amendment: A Tempest Bereft of Teapot by Jerry K. Sweeney
George Kennan, a Life in the Foreign Service by Wilson D. Miscamble
Book and Site Reviews
The Past Four U.S. Administrations Critiqued review by Robert Chira
Special Book Report: Foreign Policy is Important, But This Book Isn't review by Edward L. Peck
The Hegemonic Demands of Pax Americana review by Jim Abrahamson
The Blessings of Globalization—"Done Right" review by Carl Fritz
A Cold War that Unleashed a Rising Sun review by John E. Van Sant
Foreign Service Life
AID Education Efforts in East Africa, 1963-66: A Personal Memoir by Carl R. Fritz
Haiti & the Mystery of Voodoo by Bobbie Bergesen
Letter form Niger, April 2004 by J.R. Bullington
Letters from the Front
A Letter to American Diplomacy Readers by Trampes C. Crow
American Challenges in Post-Conflict Iraq by Christopher H. Varhola
From the Editor