Publications
ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series
For more than 225 years extraordinary men and women have represented the United States abroad under all kinds of circumstances. What they did and how and why they did it are not well known to their compatriots. In 1996 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) and Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) created a book series to increase public knowledge and appreciation of the involvement of American diplomats in the events of world history. The series seeks to demystify diplomacy by telling the story of those who have conducted our foreign relations, as they saw them and lived them.
Abroad for Her Country,
by Jean Wilkowski
"This is a wonderful memoir. I could not put it down. Ambassador Wilkowski writes with wit, candor, and great insight into the ways in which diplomacy is carried out, including the personal aspects that are so relevant but rarely disclosed." — Ambassador Princeton Lyman, Council on Foreign Relations
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $30.00, Members' price $27.00
African Wars: A Defense Intelligence Perspective,
by William G. Thom
"I recommend this book to students of African issues, military historians, intelligence professionals, and those schooled in the ways of bureaucrats. You will be treated to historical and military insights, experience bureaucratic dog fights, and engage in the various daily duties of an intelligence professional." — from the Foreword by William T. Stoakley,
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $34.95, Members' price $31.00
The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II,
by Ulrich Straus
"The Anguish of Surrender is an engrossing story told with sensitivity by one who has deep experience in Japan and who writes with clarity and empathy." — Michael Armacost, former ambassador to Japan
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $27.50, Members' price $24.95;
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $24.00, Members' price $22.00
The
Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America's Embassies,
by Jane C. Loeffler
"What do we, as a nation, mean to say to the world? Jane C. Loeffler shrewdly looks for answers in a crucial yet neglected place: the architecture of America's embassies. From the petty jealousies on Capitol Hill to the fine points of modernist design, Loeffler's effortlessly erudite and highly readable account explains how our government has tried—with mixed success—to represent us abroad in steel and stone." —Howard Fineman, Chief Political Correspondent, Newsweek, and ABC News Analyst
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $24.95, Members' price $21.00
Revised 2nd edition, January 2011
Bangladesh and Pakistan: Flirting with Failure in South Asia,
by William B. Milam
"Understanding the dymanics and complexities of South Asia is more important now than ever before. Bill Milam provides the essential historical background of Pakistan and Bangladesh with an insider's perspective and firsthand knowledge that only a seasoned and gifted diplomat can provide." —Lee H. Hamilton, President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $35.00, Members' price $32.50
Behind Embassy Walls:
The Life And Times of an American Diplomat
by Brandon Grove
“Ambassador Grove… makes it starkly, sometimes startlingly, clear that America’s statecraft is carried out by living, breathing people, with feelings. This senior American diplomat, one of the great ones of his time, makes it clear that the character of the people who conduct U.S. foreign relations crosscuts— sometimes dramatically—with the flow of critical issues and events.” — Daniel Simpson, Associate Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $34.95, Members' price $31.00
Born a Foreigner:
A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia,
by Charles T. Cross
“As a missionary’s son in China, a soldier in the Pacific war, and a career diplomat, Chuck Cross was an eyewitness to America’s fateful encounters in Asia across five decades. His memoir is history at close-up range, full of revealing, well-observed details. Diplomats are schooled to take the world as it is, and these are a professional’s recollections. . . . Yet no one who reads them will fail to sense Cross’s own solid values or his sympathy and respect for the ordinary Chinese and other Asians whom he lived among during the turbulent and often tragic events recounted in this book.” —Arnold R. Isaacs, author of Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $69.00, Members' price $30.00 (supply limited at $30.00)
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $24.95, Members' price $20.00
A Brief History
of United States Diplomacy, by ADST
"A Brief History of United States Diplomacy is splendid, full of just the kind of portraiture and basic information that 'fixes' the tradition of American diplomacy in the minds of students, U.S. citizens and non-Americans alike." —Alan K. Henrikson, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $6, Members' price $4.50, Bulk [25 or more] price $3.50
Building Diplomacy The Architecture of American Embassies,
by Elizabeth Gill Lui
Introduction by Jane Loeffler
"Structured geographically, Building Diplomacy portrays embassies in Africa, East Asia, Europe, the Near East, the Pacific, South Asia, and the Western Hemisphere. An appendix lists the architects and designers of the featured buildings."
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $50.00, Members' price $42.50
Bush
Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer,
by Howard R. Simpson
"When it comes to recounting his adventures on four continents, Howard Simpson is the David Niven of Foreign Service officers." —George Stevens Jr., filmmaker and AFI founder
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $24.95, Members' price $20
Captive in the Congo:
A Consul's Return to the Heart of Darkness,
by Michael P. E. Hoyt
“Michael Hoyt’s book is a gripping and well-documented tale of U.S. relations with the remnants of the Belgian Congo during the 1964 Simba rebellion in Stanleyville. A deftly written account of an American diplomat’s experiences while held hostage by rebels through truly harrowing times, it reads like a fast-paced thriller. Tragically, it bears an eerie resemblance to events today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hoyt’s professional, almost clinically detached style gives these pages authenticity and drama.” —Brandon Grove, U.S. ambassador to Zaire, 1984-87
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $34.95, Members' price $29.00
China
Boys: How U.S. Relations with the PRC Began and Grew, by Nicholas Platt
"China Boys is a timely, enlightening, and entertaining book by a distinguished U.S.-China relations insider who was with Nixon and Kissinger at the beginning and has enjoyed a ringside seat ever since.... Ambassador Platt provides valuable perspective and context for today's debate, as his engaging storytelling, keen insights, and wicked wit carry the reader through four decades of U.S-China friendship, friction, and frustration." — James McGrecor, author, One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, and former Wall Street Journal China Bureau Chief
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $28.00, Members' price $25.00
China
Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations 1945-1996, Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
" An insider's view of how American policy toward China has been made over the last seven decades, China Confidential is an indispensable source for anyone wishing to understand the formal communiqués, dispatches, and memoranda that constitute the raw materials of diplomatic history and international relations." — Marc Gallicchio, Villanova University, author of The African American Encounter with Japan and China
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $49.95, Members' price $40.00;
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $21.00, Members' price $17.00
Cold War Saga, by Kempton Jenkins
"To us veterans of the Cold War's diplomatic front lines, Kempton Jenkins tells it like it was. He names the key players, gives keen insight into their character, and shows why some were heroes and some villains. Cold War Saga is an absorbing read. If you fought with Jenks in the political trenches, it will stir fond memories. If you didn't, it will take you there, and you won't forget where you've been or what was at stake." — Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $20.94, Members' price $20.00
The Colonels' Coup and the American Embassy:
A Diplomat's View of the Breakdown of Democracy in Cold War Greece
by Robert V. Keeley
"In August 1966, twenty years after James H. Keeley assumed his duties as counselor of embassy in Athens, his son, Robert V. Keeley, also a career Foreign Service officer with a fair knowledge of Greek and pleasant memories of his childhood days in that small corner of the Balkans, arrived to take up his post as a political analyst. He was to return in 1985 as the U.S. ambassador to Greece (1985-89). His baptism in the ways of American diplomacy and of Greek politics is recounted in this remarkably candid and historically valuable memoir. " —from the Prologue by John O. Iatrides, Southern Connecticut State University
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $74.95, Members' price $43.00 (limited time only)
The Craft of Political Analysis for Diplomats
by Raymond F. Smith
"Diplomatic reporting…is useless if not readable and harmful if not accurate. Smith provides a guide to all aspiring envoys on how to achieve both of those qualities in their dispatches. ... I wish that this superb primer had been available during my own diplomatic apprenticeship and hope that a copy will henceforth be supplied to every new Foreign Service entrant." — James F. Dobbins, former assistant secretary of state for Europe
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $30.00, Members' price $26.00
Crossing The Divide: An Insider's Account of the Normalization of U.S.-China Relations, by John H. Holdridge
"John Holdridge meets the criteria of both professional and scholar, and his description of the relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China from 1945 to the present is must reading for every American interested in the accurate reporting of the evolution of America's post–World War II relationship with China." —From the Foreword by Alexander M. Haig Jr., former Secretary of State
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $79, Members' price $60
Paperback: Nonmembers' price $28.95, Members' price $23
Cursed is the Peacemaker: The American Diplomat versus the Israeli General, Beirut 1982, by John Boykin
"This is the first, the only, and certain-never-to-be-bettered study of Philip Habib, the most outrageously talented, beloved, and influential American diplomat since Benjamin Franklin. . . . John Boykin captures the wily, witty Phil Habib in marvelously fast-paced and beautifully crafted prose." —CHARLES HILL, Yale University, former Executive Secretary of the Department of State
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $29.95, Members' price $25
Defiant Diplomacy: Henrik Kauffmann, Denmark, and the United States in World War II and the Cold War 1939-1958,
by Bo Lidegaard
"Defiant Diplomacy depicts the extraordinary life of diplomat Henrik de Kauffmann (1888-1963), a major figure in U.S.-Danish relations during World War II and the first decades of the Cold War as Denmark's envoy to Washington."
Library Edition: Nonmembers' price $78.95, Members' price $68.00
Distinguished Service: Lydia Chapin Kirk, Partner in Diplomacy, 1996-1984, Roger Kirk, Editor
"Soon the news leaked out of Washington that the President had selected Alan as our new Ambassador the the Soviet Union. I was stunned. ... That night I twisted and turned along with my thoughts, proud that my husband should have been selected, but fearful of what the assignment would entail. ... I knew Alan was secretly pleased and looked forward to the challenge. He was ready to face the Russians, as he had been to face the Germans. This being so, who was I, a service woman born and bred, to object, especially as this time I could share the challenge with him." ,
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $22.95, Members' price $20
Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk,
by Howard B. Schaffer
American Adacemy of Diplomacy 2004 Special Citation for distinguished writing on American Diplomacy
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $34.95, Members' price $30.00
"Emperor
Dead" and Other Historic American Diplomatic Dispatches,
compiled and edited by Peter D. Eicher
"By means of excerpted dispatches dating back to the American Revolution, 'Emperor Dead' depicts American representatives abroad noticing and calling attention to events, opportunities, and historical achievements about which people at home needed urgent knowledge. As Peter D. Eicher points out in his perceptive introduction, this reportage changed as telegraph lines and transoceanic cables speeded up communication, as proliferating news media made comprehensive reportage of events less necessary . . . and as matters of concern to Americans multiplied and broadened. Yet diplomatic reporting has remained vital [because of] its analysis, its perspective on events, and its important confidential information. Moreover, it provides a fascinating window on two centuries of world history. Of all this, Eicher's volume provides wonderful illustration." —From the Foreword by Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of History, Harvard University
Cloth (7" x 10"): Out of Print
Escape With Honor: My
Last Hours in Vietnam,
by Francis
"The work of a compassionate, literate man . . . this is an inside view of the final days of the American presence in Vietnam. More importantly, it is an informative, uplifting inside view of how people cope in times of chaos." —Publishers Weekly, August 18, 1997
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $22.95, Members' price $19
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $16.95, Members' price $14.00
Foreign
at Home and Away: Foreign-Born Wives in the U.S. Foreign Service,
by
"Margaret Bender has written an illuminating, highly readable book on the challenges that confront foreign-born spouses of U.S. Foreign Service officers. Her subjects are courageous, committed, and inspiring. . . . This engaging book, which I strongly recommend, also provides important insights on the demands faced by all foreign service spouses."—Marion Creekmore Jr., former U.S. Ambassador and Carter Center Program Director
Softcover: Price: $16.95
François de Callières: A Political Life,
by
"François de Callières is one of the most important figures in the history of diplomatic thought, and Laurence Pope, who is in the first rank of scholar-diplomats, has produced a biography worthy of him." —G. R. Berridge, Eeritus Professor of International Politics, Universityof Leicester
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $95.00, Members' price $65.00
Softcover: Nonmembers' price $49.00, Members' price $35.00
High-Value Target: Countering al Qaeda in Yemen,
by
"Hih-Value Target is important reading for anyone wishing to understand the complicated nature of Yemen." —Ali Soufan, former FBI supervisory special agent
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $27.50, Members' price $24.50
In Those
Days: A Diplomat Remembers,
by James W. Spain "From boyhood glimpses of a strutting
Al Capone to postwar Japan, a stint with the CIA, and a fascinating foreign
service career—this
is a life worth living. History is shaped by extraordinary people like
Ambassador Spain. His Irish eloquence makes the difficult look easy while his
humanity touches your soul." —Patrick J. Leahy, United States
Senator from Vermont Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $28, Members' price $23 Intervening in
Africa: Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled Continent , "Here
are wisdom and insight (and adventure) from some of the best years of US
Africa policy by the man who made it. . . . [R]equired reading for anyone
interested in knowing how foreign relations should be practiced and the
difficulty of doing so, not just in Africa but anywhere in the world.
Indeed it is required reading for [any] administration and for an informed
citizen constituency on African policy." —Professor I. William Zartman, Director, African Studies and Conflict Management Programs, Johns Hopkins
University, School of Advanced International Studies Cloth;
Nonmembers' price $65.00, Members' price $45 "
This history of USIA could not have come at a better time ... [It] is an extremely useful, clear, and compact introduction to a vitally important aspect of U.S. foreign policy. A familiarity with this history would save policymakers from repeating some costly mistakes. " — Walter Russell Mead Foreign Affairs "In this important volume Howard Schaffer breaks new ground in a careful exploration of the corrosive Kashmir issue's critical impact on America's often frustrated efforts to assist development in South Asia while containing war risks between what are now nuclear-equipped India and Pakistan. A solid researcher with long diplomatic experience of Kashmir, the author adds helpful appraisals of all sides' major players." — Phillips Talbot, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs "This critical and honest look at U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq, written by a seasoned diplomat with experience from Vietnam to Lebanon, reveals the missteps and errors at the highest levels of the U.S. occupation and development efforts. ... Stephenson's analysis of the frequent conflicts and occasional cooperation among USAID, the U.S. military, the Coalition Provisional Authority, and contractors provides essential background for understanding the current political and military turmoil over Iraq." — Wayne H. Bowen, author of Undoing Saddam: From Occupation to Sovereignty in Northern Iraq Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $23.95, Members' price $21.00 " At a time when the United States is encouraging democratic development in the Middle East, the Algerian case of partially successful transition to democracy should be better known. This is a good case study of what an ambassador actually does on a day-to-day basis ... a well-written firsthand account of recent history." — William B. Quandt, University of Virginia Cloth: Nonmembers' price $57.00, Members' price $51.00; Softcover: Nonmembers' price $24.95, Members' price $22.00 "Richardson's book is authoritative and informative in its narration of a life with an international purpose [and] combines his large and hopeful view of the world with the necessity of getting things done in ways that work." — Ambassador Brandon Grove, President, American Academy of Diplomacy Softcover:
Nonmembers' price $25.00, Members' price $22.00 The October War: A
Retrospective, "The
October War is a close examination of the events leading up to the 1973
Arab-Israeli war and . . . the first comparative analysis by Israeli,
Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian, American, and former Soviet military and
diplomatic participants and scholars of that seminal event." —Hermann F. Eilts, former
U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $55.00, Members' price $45.00 "From Vietnam combat soldier to Iraq and Afghanistan combat diplomat, Ron Neumann has seen, if not all, then most of it. In his first-person account of his time in Kabul, he recounts the possibilities and pitfalls of 'armed nation building.'" — RICHARD ARMITAGE, former Deputy Secretary of State and Assistant Secretary of Defense Cloth: Nonmembers' price $27.50, Members' price $23.00 "Morgan does not shrink from passing judgment on American and Hawaiian policymaners. His provocative interpretation will enliven the debate over how the United States, in the name of 'national security,' forsook its republican traditions and acquired a key component of an overseas empire." — Charles W. Calhoun, Distinguished Professor of History, East Carolina University "Grant’s careful blending of historical hindsight with Strickland’s own words brings enormous value to our understanding of U.S. diplomacy." — Foreign Service Journal "[With his] playwright's sense of language, character, and drama, Pezzullo presents a Potemkin Village of posturing self-righteousness and counterproductive—sometimes inexplicable—decisions and actions by all sides..." — Henry (Chip) Carey, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $45.00, Members' price $40.00 "This book will be a long-term reference source for researchers looking at Cold War history, as the subject goes through its inevitable revisionary cycles. ... It documents a critical element in U.S. Cold-War relations—the effort to reach out ideologically to Soviet and East European audiences in the face of formidable opposition by the region's Communist regimes. The author was involved in this subject more directly and over a longer period of time than any other U.S. government official." — Wilson Dizard, author of Inventing Public Diplomacy Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $29.95, Members' price $27.00 "A valuable addition to the recent history of the Balkans and an
important case study of civilian stabilization work in a postconflict
environment. Scholars and regional experts will find this
an authoritative work, and it will be essential for all those working on
stabilization and reconstruction throughout the world." Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $39.95, Members' price $36.00 "Paul Hacker arrived in Slovakia at a critical time, when we were just starting to overcome the legacy of totalitarianism. He was also in a unique position as the first American representative on the scene in Slovakia in over forty years. He is a sympathetic but objective observer of our developments." — Pavol Demes, former minister of international relations of Slovakia Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $65, Members' price $52 ". . .
a seminal contribution to our understanding of the origins and sometimes bumpy
evolution of the U.S.-Saudi relationship
in the overall Middle East context [by] one of the diplomatic pioneers in that
bilateral relationship." — Hermann
Fr. Eilts, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $35, Members' price $28
A Strategy for Stable Peace: Toward a Euroatlantic Security Community, "The
construction of a stable peace within this community of nations will not
require the destruction of those special characteristics that have made
them so distinct. What will be different is that war among them will become
a part of history, not a part of their panoply of policy options." — from
the Preface to A Strategy for Stable Peace Softcover:: Nonmembers' price $17.50,
Members' price $15 "[This] well-crafted and well-written narrative captures the failures and foibles, the successes and surprises for American diplomacy of [the Haitian revolution]. For amateurs and history buffs alike this is a book you shouldn't miss and will not find easy to put down." — Thomas R. Pickering, former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $32.00, Members' price $28.00 "Finally! Every American student of history, every American diplomat and member of Congress should read this important book. It uncovers a little-known but vitally important chapter in the long relationship between the United States and the Muslim world." — Robert J. Allison, Suffolk University Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $59.95, Members' price $50.00 The United States and Pakistan 1947–2000:
Disenchanted Allies, “In The United States and Pakistan, 1947–2000:
Disenchanted Allies, Ambassador Kux has given us the companion volume to
his earlier and unequaled history, India and the United States: Estranged
Democracies, 1941–1991. Both are absorbing, at times wrenching, accounts
of misunderstandings and miscalculations that bring us, at the end of the Cold
War, to the unwelcome fact that the most dangerous nuclear standoff in the
world is on the Indian subcontinent—with the United States looking on, aghast
and helpless. Learn why.” — Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, senior
scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Cloth: Nonmembers'
price $55.00, Members' price $45.00; Softcover: Nonmembers' price $22.95, Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat's Cold War Education, “Few events in American history have generated as
much emotion, as much division, and as many long-term impacts for America and
American society as our nation's involvement in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in
the latter half of the 20th century. . . .It seems appropriate that the first
volume in [Texas Tech University Press's Modern Southeast Asia Series] should
recount the journey of a diplomat whose working life with the U.S. Department
of State essentially encompassed the entire Cold War. . . . [Vietnam was] Ambassador
Miller's . . . central, defining experience.” — James
R. Reckner, Director,
Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech
University Cloth: Nonmembers'
price $36.50, Members' price $30.00 "These memoirs of an unusually wise and perceptive American diplomat provide rare insight into America at the apogee of its global power. Ambassador Newsom reminds us throughout that one of our greatest strengths is the diplomatic power of the United States in a complex world." — Nicholas Burns, , Professor, Harvard University, and former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $42.00, Members' price $36.00
by Herman J. Cohen
Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the United States Information Agency, by Wilson P. Dizard
Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $49.95, Members' price $42.50
The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir, by Howard B. Schaffer
Cloth:
Nonmembers' price $34.95, Members' price $30.00
Losing the GoldenHour: An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction,
by James Stephenson
Mission to Algiers: Diplomacy by Engagement, by Cameron R. Hume
A New Vision for America: Toward Human Solidarity through Global Democracy, by John Richardson
Edited by
Richard B. Parker
The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan,
by Ronald E. Neumann
Pacific Gibraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry Over the Annexation of Hawaii, 1885-1898, by William Michael Morgan
Cloth: Nonmembers' price $34.95, Members' price $30.00
Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal, by Stephen H. Grant
Softcover:
Price $18.00
Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy,
by Ralph Pezzullo
Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey,
by Yale Richmond
Reconstruction and Peace Building in the Balkans: The Brčko Experience,
by Robert William Farrand in collaboration with Allison Frendak-Blume
—
Jack Zetkulic, Career U.S. diplomat
Slovakia on the Road to Independence: An American Diplomat's Eyewitness Account,
by Paul Hacker
Saudi
Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership,
by Parker T. Hart
by James E. Goodby, Petrus Buwalda,
and Dmitri Trenin
Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution,
by Gordon S. Brown
Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History,
by Richard B. Parker
by Dennis Kux
Members' price $19.00
by Robert Hopkins Miller
Witness to a Changing World,
by David D. Newsom
ADST Copyright © 2011, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training |
