American Diplomacy

Editor: Henry E. Mattox, PhD
Publisher: T. Frank Crigler Chapel Hill, NC
4 December 1996 Editorial Advisory Board &
Technical Staff

CONTENTS
Volume I, No. 2

From the Editor

Launching a Journal: The Editor's Gratitude

In This Issue: Some Serious Stuff

Current Articles

Article Summaries
Democratization, Failed states, and Peace Operations: THE CHALLENGE OF UNGOVERNABILITY
by Robert H. Dorff
Political scientist Dorff discusses the ideas of nations' ungovernability and "failed states" and their effect on peace operations.

Jimmy Carter and SALT II: THE PATH TO FRUSTRATION
by Matthew M. Oyos
Historian Matt Oyos analyzes President Carter's unsuccessful efforts to end the nuclear arms race.

Public Opinion on Human Rights in American Foreign Policy (Part II)

by Ole R. Holsti
The concluding portion of Professor Holsti's analysis of the link between public opinion and foreign policy.

Ronald D.F. Palmer on Southeast Asia in 1996

Carl Fritz on wartime service in Vietnam

Francis Underhill on learning French (with a few tears)

Stuart Kennedy on the Foreign Affairs Oral History program

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NOTES: The opinions expressed by the authors published in this Journal are not necessarily those of members of the Editorial Advisory Board or of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies.