PNP surpassing achievements and service in 2009.
HER Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, DILG Secretary Ronaldo Puno; our officials from the executive, judicial and legislative departments; from the political, religious, business, diplomatic corps, armed services, academe, media, NGOs and the community, magandang umaga po sa inyong lahat. On behalf of the 125,000-strong National Police...

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...

James Eayrs on diplomacy, foreign policy, and international relations: a retrospective.
A certain prestige and mystique once attended the art and science of diplomacy. Some of it even spilled over onto its practitioners. Lately, however, this perception has all but disappeared, and in its place is near universal scorn, rebuke and ridicule. Once revered, the profession now finds itself in...

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...

Diplomatic leadership in process of change.
FOR a country striving for peace and economic stability and the well-being of its people, foreign relations functions as an instrument a catalyst in the promotion of national interest. National interest, after all, is the core claim of foreign policy: It is the first choice in foreign...

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...

148 killed in Egyptian plane crash.
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) A charter plane carrying 135 French tourists and 13 Egyptian crew to Paris, France plunged into the Red Sea after take-off from the resort of Sharm elSheikh before dawn yesterday, killing all on board, officials said. The crash came amid heightened air security in...

Is diplomacy dead?
EVERY man is a diplomat, painful though it might be for professional diplomats to acknowledge the fact. Ever since he--homo sapiens--emerged from the primeval slime and learned to stand upon two legs and profit from the gift of an opposable thumb he has had to fight his own corner...