US Diplomats and Their Spouses during the Cold War
Title | US Diplomats and Their Spouses during the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony J. Barker |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2019-11-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1498591809 |
This study examines 324 oral history transcripts and explains the recruitment, training, and deployment of US diplomats. Amid growing feminist hostility to Foreign Service treatment of spouses, some couples resented postings to distant Australasia but most enjoyed a welcoming English-speaking environment. While New Zealand assignments involved complex negotiations with Pacific islanders, diplomats in Australia were powerless to control the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean, including the fortification of Diego Garcia and peace negotiations threatening US Navy access to the port of Fremantle. When the Australian Labor Party won power in 1972 the vulnerability of vital military and intelligence facilities alarmed the US more than opposition to nuclear ship visits that removed New Zealand from the ANZUS alliance in the 1980s. Notable exceptions to a principal focus on diplomats below the highest ranks are Marshall and Lisa Green. After meeting John Stewart Service in post-1945 New Zealand they remained for years his loyal defenders against the assaults of McCarthyism. Lisa's interview implicitly but decisively refutes allegations that, as US ambassador to Australia, Marshall plotted the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975. Despite persistent rumors of a CIA coup, declassified cables reveal resident US diplomats' hostility to the governor general's unprecedented action.
Unofficial Ambassadors
Title | Unofficial Ambassadors PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Alvah |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2007-04 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0814705014 |
"Those who viewed military families as representatives of their nation believed that they could project a friendlier, more humane side of the United States' campaign for dominance in the Cold War and were essential to the ideological battle against communism. In this untold story of Cold War diplomacy, Donna Alvah describes how these "unofficial ambassadors" cultivated relationships with both local people and military families in private homes, churches, schools, women's clubs, shops, and other places."--BOOK JACKET.
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Pages | 535 |
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ISBN | 0544716248 |
The Diplomacy of Silence
Title | The Diplomacy of Silence PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh De Santis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780226143378 |
Married to the Foreign Service
Title | Married to the Foreign Service PDF eBook |
Author | Jewell Fenzi |
Publisher | Twayne Pub |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780805791228 |
Drawn from 170 interviews with the spouses of U.S. diplomats, 'Married to the Foreign Service' offers a compelling account of spirited and courageous women caught up in the dramatic events of this century's global politics.
COLD WAR DIPLOMAT
Title | COLD WAR DIPLOMAT PDF eBook |
Author | GEORGE A GLASS |
Publisher | Cwd |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2016-03-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780986346330 |
U.S. career diplomat Glass recounts waging the Cold War, fighting the KGB, confronting German unification, stopping the Bosnia war, freezing terrorist finance, halting the Iranian nuclear program, eyeballing Russian bombers, and facing Wikileaks, all during diplomatic assignments in Berlin, Moscow, Washington, Tokyo, Bern, Vienna and Munich.
Behind Embassy Walls
Title | Behind Embassy Walls PDF eBook |
Author | Brandon Grove |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780826215734 |
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