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Welcome to our new, and improved, website. We are proud of our heritage as a pioneering internet magazine. During our fifteen years on the Web, the online world has changed dramatically, so our update is more than timely. Because web magazine home pages like ours are essentially the counterpart to the table of contents pages of our print counterparts, we now offer a larger, less cluttered format.

Our editor and I have worked closely with our board, and especially with our webmaster, Sandy Johnson and technical advisor, Chris Kuster over the past several months as we evolved the new look. We have been fortunate that Sandy and Chris have been with us from our earliest years and brought a special awareness of our needs to the project. We have improved our drop-down menus and made a number of other tweaks. Sandy has come up with a flexible layout which is far easier to update and tweak than the first generation. One major challenge has been to convert our fifteen years of archive material to the current format. Chris has found an imaginative way to accomplish this, but as with all such website transitions, perfection is an elusive target. So we remain alert to catch and correct errors as they become apparent. If you come upon any, please let us know. In fact, we welcome all comments on, and suggestions for further improvements to, the website. Thanks for reading American Diplomacy.

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Part Three, Black Hawk Down

by Mark Wentling

...One thing for sure this was a big turning point in the conflict as we saw that Somalis had figured out how to shoot down low flying helicopters, and, thus, U.S. government policy makers were obliged to re-visit again the basis and the need for continuing this “humanitarian” mission...

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Opinion
Opinions expressed are those of the individual authors, and do not represent the position of American Diplomacy which maintains its founding principles of balance and non-partisanship.

New The Iraqi War: Swimming Against the Tide of Opinion by Samah al-Momen

Is It the End of the End? by David T. Jones

A Regional Solution to the Syrian Uprising by Varun Vira

How the Egyptian Revolution Emphasized the Sovereignty of the People by Abeer Bassiouny Arafa Ali Radwan

Obama, Netanyahu And the Middle East by James L. Abrahamson

Does History Take Sides? The Problem of Evoking the Past to Justify Policy by Michael W. Santos

The Perils in U. S. Mediation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: What History Has Taught Us by Yoav J. Tenembaum

Don’t Leave Counter-Terrorism to the Military by Haviland Smith

A Role Reversal from a Military-First Approach by Joseph Lyons

The Lost Libertarian Moment by Howard Cincotta

Peace Corps Annivesary

Forty-Five Years in the Making: My First Peace Corps Story by Mark Gregory Wentling

How My Peace Corps Experience Changed Me by Ralph Bates

Special section to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the U. S. Peace Corps

The Editor of Carolina Public Health, Ms Linda Kastleman, has kindly alerted us to a collection of Peace Corps volunteer stories featuring UNC students and faculty members who have served. These can be accessed on the
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health website.

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My Picks: A Top 10 List
By Csaba T. Chikes
A Sampler from our archives

More detail about these recommendations here.

Jimmy Carter and the 1979 Decision to Admit the Shah into the United States By William J. Daugherty (March 16, 2003)

My Dependent Wife
by Lucien Heichler (December 17, 2003)

On Professionalism Among American Ambassadors
By Henry Mattox (2, 1999)

Auyantepui
By Bart Moon (October12, 2009)

America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire Reviewed by Gerald J. Loftus (January 15, 2008)

The Futile Search for Root Causes of Terrorism By Michael Radu (August 16, 2002)

Smith-Mundt: Censorship American Style?
By Gregory L. Garland (March 3, 2009)

Remembering Saisith
By William Sommers (September 14, 2009
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The Victors and the Vanquished 2003
By Michael Hornblow (January 12, 2004)

A Venture in Scholarship
Editor’s Introduction by Henry Mattox (1999)

 



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