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The Importance of Values in International Affairs

The Importance of Values in International Affairs

An article in Foreign Affairs by Alexander Stubb, the President of Finland, stresses the importance …

Ian Bremmer on Morality in International Affairs

Ian Bremmer on Morality in International Affairs

Ian Bremmer’s email regarding Trump’s new National Security Strategy echoes David Brooks…

David Brooks on the Importance of Morality in National Life

David Brooks on the Importance of Morality in National Life

David Brooks wrote in the Atlantic: So how can neoconservative thinking help us today? The first big…

Amb. Bill Burns on the Foreign Service

Amb. Bill Burns on the Foreign Service

In an article in The Atlantic, Amb. Bill Burnes decries the damage done to the Foreign Service …

The US Foreign Service Is at the Breaking Point

The US Foreign Service Is at the Breaking Point

The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) has issued a report, “At the Breaking Point” documen…

My Assignment to the  Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

My Assignment to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Notes of an S&T officer ACDA In 1982 after my INR assignment, I took an assignment in the Arms C…