Three years before the mast.
Editor's Note: Drawing from Richard Henry Dana for the title of this essay, the author, a retired career U. S. ambassador, paints with unparalleled authority the similarities--and differences--between Department of State and Department of Defense authority and command structures. Containing no sensitive or classified information, Amb. Marks'...

Intelligence failures: causes and contemporary case studies.
ABSTRACT Intelligence, like warfare, is not a science but an art. If a science at all, it is certainly far from an exact science. It is an intellectual endeavour which requires much training, common sense, experience, team work, technological expertise and the ability to communicate the product...

Operation Condor: Clandestine Inter-American System.
IN THE 10 YEARS SINCE THE COLD WAR'S END, THE WORLD HAS SEEN A GRADUAL opening up of formerly Secret state archives on both sides of the East-West divide, as well as truly astonishing developments in human rights and international law. Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon's request for the arrest...

Geographic bureaucracies and national security.
Editor's Note: Military officers and a State Department faculty member at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA, discuss the difficulties of interagency coordination in American foreign policy and national security operations and highlight the very basic problem of the differing regional frameworks and corresponding bureaucracies...

Interagency leadership: the case for strengthening the Department of State.
Editor's Note: Effective interagency coordination has become an increasingly important topic of discussion and study within the U.S. military, particularly as military forces, largely by default, have increasingly taken on traditionally civilian roles in reconstruction and stabilization operations and foreign assistance. In this essay, three students at the Joint...

What Went Wrong With Africa: A Contemporary History.
WHAT WENT WRONG WITH AFRICA: A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Roel van der Veen Amsterdam, KIT Publishers, 2004 416 pages, paper, $39.95 The last fifty years have seen unprecedented changes in standards of living all over the world. Due to technological improvements in...

A Stern Face and a Warm Welcome: What to do about immigration policy and immigrant policy-two different things.
To the casual observer, it might seem that the federal government has made real progress on immigration since 9/11. And, in fact, some of the measures we've seen over the past two years are encouraging signs that immigration is again being taken seriously, after decades of malign neglect: the...

HIS WAY: A biography of Robert Muldoon.
HIS WAY: A biography of Robert Muldoon Author: Barry Gustafson Published by: Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2000, 545pp, $59.95. Malcolm Templeton reviews a new biography of one of New Zealand's most controversial politicians, Robert Muldoon. On 22 June 1967 my wife and I were celebrating...

State to probe foreign fund use.
Byline: Anil Pathak GANDHINAGAR: The state government has decided to conduct detailed investigation into the utilisation of foreign funds received by voluntary organisations. Many of these organisations , which include religious and social institutions , have been found to be violating provisions of the Foreign Currency Regulatory...

The Institute of Inter-American Affairs and Its Health Policies in Brazil during World War II.
In March 1944, the U.S. Institute of Inter-American Affairs (IIAA) celebrated the second anniversary of its "cooperative health and sanitation program" in Latin America.(1) George C. Dunham, the director of the IIAA's health and sanitation division, evaluated the program's accomplishments and goals. Although Dunham took most of his examples...