Volume V, No. 1
Winter 2000

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		Special Feature! Mackinder's World Halford Mackinder’s ideas, which began to appear in print almost a century ago and have since assumed classic status in the world of political geography.    by Francis P. Sempa Other Current Articles: America and the World at the Dawn of a New Century    by Walter A. McDougall Los Principios de Primacía y Operatividad en el Derecho Comunitario como Fundamentos para la Integración de Latinoamérica    por Eugenio Roberto Caligiuri Ammendiola    y Alejandro A. Figueroa Vejar From the Editor . . . The Best and the Rest Commentary on Current Issues: A Retrospective on the Infernal Triangle: Lebanon, Syria, and Israel    by Curtis F. Jones From Post-Cold War to Post-Westphalia    by Edward D. Marks Boris Yeltsin Enters the History Books    by Keith Moon Life in the Foreign Service: Learning on the job in Oran, Algeria Doing the Wrong Thing for the Right Reason    by Edward L. Peck Squeezed between rich and poor in Turkey Istanbul Blues    by Ruby Carlino News & Important Announcements: Simmons to Host Global Security Conference February 29 Foundations Award American Diplomacy Two Operating Grants Great News for American Diplomacy Readers Now American Diplomacy will benefit each time you buy a book online! Former State Department IG Joins American Diplomacy Board Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide Debuts New Website Two new FRUS releases from Dept. of State Historian Political terrorism research interest at Duke Univ. Letters: Presidential Military Service Listing the Best and the Rest Consular Inspections and Reports Accidental Diplomats Sources on U.S. Policy in Latin America Repatriation from Wartime Japan The Men of the ASTP Reviews of Books & Sites: Dullesian Ad Hoc Raison d’état Rehabilitated    by Nick Sarantakes John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy By Richard H. Immerman (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 221. $55 cloth; $17.95 paper.) The Quintessential American Diplomat    by Matthew Jacobs Proud Servant: The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador By Ellis O. Briggs (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 430. $45.00) The Unlikely Lady Planter    by Richard Matheron Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda By Rosamond Halsey Carr, with Ann Howard Halsey (New York: Viking Penguin, 1999, Pp. 248. $23.95) State’s Adjunct ‘Accidental Diplomats’: Foreign Service Spouses    by Linda Killen The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse By Katherine L. Hughes (Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Aletheia, 1999. Pp. x, 180. $17.95 paper.) The Forgotten ‘Plumed Knight’    by Gene Schmiel James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire By Edward P. Crapol (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2000. Pp. xx, 157. $50 cloth; $17.95 paper.)