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Practicing public diplomacy
There is much discussion these days about public diplomacy—communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats—but little information about what it actually entails. This book does exactly that by detailing the doings of a US Foreign Service cultural officer in five hot spots of the Cold War - Germany, Laos, Poland, Austria, and the Soviet Union - as well as service in Washington DC with the State Department, the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Part history, part memoir, it takes readers into the trenches of the Cold War and demonstrates what public diplomacy can do. It also provides examples of what could be done today in countries where anti-Americanism runs high.
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Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection
William Elliot Griffis (1843 - 1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo. After his return to the United States, he devoted himself to his research and writing on East Asia throughout his life. He authored 20 books about Japan and five books about Korea including, Corea: The Hermit Nation (1882), Corea, Without and Within: Chapters on Corean History, Manners and Religion (1885), The Unmannerly Tiger, and Other Korean Tales (1911), A Modern Pioneer in Korea: The Life Story of Henry G. Appenzeller (1912), and Korean Fairy Tales (1922). In particular, his bestseller, Corea: The Hermit Nation (1882) was reprinted numerous times through nine editions over thirty years. He was not only known as \"the foremost interpreter of Japan to the West before World War I but also the American expert on Korea. After his death, his collection of books, documents, photographs and ephemera was donated to Rutgers.The Korean materials in the Griffis Collection at Rutgers University consist of journals, correspondence, articles, maps, prints, photos, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and ephemera. These papers reflect Griffis's interests and activities in relation to Korea as a historian, scholar, and theologian. They provide a rare window into the turbulent period of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Korea, witnessed and evaluated by Griffis and early American missionaries in East Asia. The Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection are divided into two parts: letters from missionaries and letters from Japanese and Korean political figures. Newly available and accessible through this collection, these letters develop a multifaceted history of early American missionaries in Korea, the Korean independence movement, and Griffis's views on Korean culture.
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Breaking Protocol
\"It used to be,\" soon-to-be secretary of state Madeleine K.
Albright said in 1996, \"that the only way a woman could truly make
her foreign policy views felt was by marrying a diplomat and then
pouring tea on an offending ambassador's lap.\"
This world of US diplomacy excluded women for a variety of
misguided reasons: they would let their emotions interfere with the
task of diplomacy, they were not up to the deadly risks that could
arise overseas, and they would be unable to cultivate the social
contacts vital to success in the field. The men of the State
Department objected but had to admit women, including the first
female ambassadors: Ruth Bryan Owen, Florence \"Daisy\" Harriman,
Perle Mesta, Eugenie Anderson, Clare Boothe Luce, and Frances
Willis. These were among the most influential women in US foreign
relations in their era.
Using newly available archival sources, Philip Nash examines the
history of the \"Big Six\" and how they carved out their rightful
place in history. After a chapter capturing the male world of
American diplomacy in the early twentieth century, the book devotes
one chapter to each of the female ambassadors and delves into a
number of topics, including their backgrounds and appointments, the
issues they faced while on the job, how they were received by host
countries, the complications of protocol, and the press coverage
they received, which was paradoxically favorable yet deeply sexist.
In an epilogue that also provides an overview of the role of women
in modern US diplomacy, Nash reveals how these trailblazers helped
pave the way for more gender parity in US foreign relations.
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A Professional Foreigner
Young American Foreign Service officers are accustomed to being
teased by friends and relatives as to what they do in the \"Foreign
Legion\" or the \"Forest Service.\" In the United States, unlike in
many countries, the role of a professional diplomat is little known
or understood. In A Professional Foreigner Edward Marks
describes his life as an American diplomat who served during the
last four decades of the twentieth century, from 1959 to 2001.
Serving primarily in Africa and Asia, Marks was present during the
era of decolonization in Africa (but always seemed to be at the
opposite end of the continent from the hottest developments), was
intimately involved in the early days of the U.S. government's
antiterrorism programs, observed the unfolding of a nasty and
tragic ethnic conflict in one of the most charming countries in the
world, and saw the end of the Cold War at UN headquarters in New
York. Along the way Marks served as the U.S. ambassador to two
African nations. In this memoir Marks depicts a Foreign Service
officer's daily life, providing insight into the profession itself
and what it was like to play a role in the steady stream of
history, in a world of quotidian events often out of the view of
the media and the attention of the world. Marks's stories-such as
rescuing an American citizen from a house of ill repute in Mexico
and the attempt to recruit mongooses for drug intervention in Sri
Lanka-are both entertaining and instructive on the work of
diplomats and their contributions to the American story.
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African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy
Bookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C.
Carrington and Charles Stith, the essays in this volume use close
readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries,
memoirs of policymakers, and newly available FBI files to confront
much-neglected questions related to race and foreign relations in
the United States. Why, for instance, did African Americans profess
loyalty and support for the diplomatic initiatives of a nation that
undermined their social, political, and economic well-being through
racist policies and cultural practices? Other contributions explore
African Americans' history in the diplomatic and consular services
and the influential roles of cultural ambassadors like Joe Louis
and Louis Armstrong. The volume concludes with an analysis of the
effects on race and foreign policy in the administration of Barack
Obama.
Groundbreaking and critical, African Americans in U.S.
Foreign Policy expands on the scope and themes of recent
collections to offer the most up-to-date scholarship to students in
a range of disciplines, including U.S. and African American
history, Africana studies, political science, and American
studies.
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