Elsewhere
in this issue:



Focus on
CHINA

Sawyer on Warfare
Pei on Instability
Grant on Taiwan
Fritz on China 1945
Borich on US-China
   relations

American Diplomacy

An Electronic Journal of Commentary, Analysis, and Research
on American Foreign Policy and Its Practice

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Henry E. Mattox, PhD
   U.S. Foreign Service, retired
   North Carolina State University
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   U.S. Foreign Service, retired
   Trusten Associates, Durham, NC
     Advisory Editorial Board

Amb. William N. Dale
   U.S. Foreign Service, retired
Carl R. Fritz
   U.S. Foreign Service, retired
Curtis F. Jones
   U.S. Foreign Service, retired
Richard H. Kohn, PhD
   University of North Carolina
Roy M.    Melbourne, PhD
   U.S. Foreign Service, retired
Richard B. Moon
   U.S. Foreign Service, retired
John E. Williams
   U.S. Foreign Service, retired
Advisory Editorial Board
  
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Sarantakes on Japan
Wilson Ctr on SE Asia

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Bullington on Military
   Intervention

Ryland-Holmes on
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Inman & Sharp on
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  • Life in the Foreign Service
Linderman on Cuba
Nixon on Haiti

  • Reviews of Books & Sites
Yarmolinsky on    Thomas L. Friedman
Mitchell on Louis Perez

  • From the Editor

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   Peace College, Raleigh, NC
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   North Carolina State University
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   North Carolina State University
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   North Carolina State University
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   University of North Carolina
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   U.S. Department of State,
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