Global Security Challenges: Report on a speech by Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, University of North Carolina, March 5, 2008.
Editor's Note: American Diplomacy Associate Publisher Cotter demonstrates to the reader of the following account one of the necessary skills cultivated by diplomats in the U. S. Foreign Service, as well as in the career diplomatic services of other countries: He reports accurately from his memory and...

Family ties in the making of modern intelligence.
"These are our crowd ... They've been vetted an' we're putting 'em through their paces." --Rudyard Kipling, 1904 Good intelligence officials know that one of the most important things they can do is recruit competent, reliable, and loyal personnel to staff their agencies. As with foreign service...

A New England? Peace and War, 1886-1918.
A New England? Peace and War, 1886-1918, by G. R. Searle. New Oxford History of England series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004. xxii, 951 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Defining periods requires historians to balance conflicting imperatives that include dates, major events, and different trends that rarely fit...

Gulliver's travails: the U.S. in the post-Cold-War world.
Towards the close of the twentieth century a metaphor entered circulation that compared the United States to Lemuel Gulliver at the start of his visit to Lilliput. Gulliver in Swift's satire was, you recall, an English sea doctor who, having sunk exhausted on a foreign beach after his ship...

A brittle relationship: Gerald McGhie reviews a recent Book on New Zealand-Soviet relations.
In his aptly sub-titled book, Tony Wilson provides an excellent overview of some 40 years of New Zealand-Soviet relations. It was indeed a 'brittle relationship'. Government-to-government links were central to the tone and content of what was both a political and a commercial relationship. Rightly in his study Wilson...

The Holy Land appropriated: the careers of Selah Merrill, nineteenth century Christian Hebraist, Palestine explorer, and U.S. consul in Jerusalem.
I. Selah Merrill and the Jews of Palestine "The Jew needs to learn that his place in the world will be determined by what he can do for himself, and not so much by what Abraham did for himself four thousand years ago. It has a most...

Kuoni takes visa facilitation BPO model abroad.
NEW DELHI: World's largest travel company Kuoni Travel Group is betting big on VFS India, a visa facilitation BPO arm it started in India. Buoyed by rich dividends from VFS, Kuoni is integrating its wholly-owned, Indian BPO subsidiary with its international network. "We have renamed the company...

Kuoni takes visa facilitation BPO model abroad.
Byline: Bhanu Pande NEW DELHI: World's largest travel company Kuoni Travel Group is betting big on VFS India, a visa facilitation BPO arm it started in India. Buoyed by rich dividends from VFS, Kuoni is integrating its wholly-owned Indian BPO subsidiary with its international network. "We have...

LIBYA - Sept 17 - Libyans Await Benefits Of Better Ties With The West.
Libya's exit from diplomatic isolation has raised expectations for change among ordinary Libyans frustrated with poor services and corruption, as well as improving leader Muammar Gaddafi's standing abroad. The regime could once tell its citizens a draconian security policy and crackdowns on dissent were necessary to safeguard the achievements...

Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939.
Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939, by Keith Neilson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 379 pp. $85.00 US (cloth). A study of Anglo-Soviet relations between the two world wars has never been fully written. To do this, and within an ambitious...