100 episodes
American Diplomat Ambassador (Retired) Pete Romero and Writer/Producer Laura Bennett
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4.8 • 154 Ratings
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American Diplomat goes behind the scenes to hear real stories from diplomats who lived newsworthy events overseas. Experience the Cuban revolution, Central American insurgencies, the end of apartheid and more through the eyes of those who were there. A project of the Una Chapman Cox Foundation in partnership with the American Academy of Diplomacy.
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Bahrain, So Small, So Important
The Arab Spring - Tunisia, Egypt - we know about these places. But Bahrain is almost never in the news. What is its geopolitical significance, and strategic importance to the US? And why was Ambassador Tom Krajeski in a tight spot when the Arab Spring came to Bahrain? Can we walk and chew gum at the same time?
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The Shining City on the Hill?
"But we're Americans. We don't lose wars." False! Ambassador and former National Security Advisor Tony Lake takes a hard look at American leadership in the world from Kennedy until the present time, when like so many countries, our democracy needs shoring up as well. For more about Tony Lake, see this article in the Foreign Service Journal.
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The Secret Dinners
Like Chicago mobsters, hard line parties grab to divvy up the riches after the genocide in Bosnia has stopped. Ambassador Tom Miller, together with the British ambassador, organizes "secret dinners" that lead to a peaceable coalition of factions that brings stability and to great surprise wins the election 2000. But after the noxious blue smoke clears, then what?
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The Ugly American
Or a traitor, anyway. In an eerily quiet region during the Vietnam war, from a banana grove in the middle of the night, Lionel Rosenblatt discovers that a US military official is guilty of supplying the enemy with life-saving medicine from the United States. Lionel is saved from a murderous reprisal through the assistance of his friends, the Vietnamese mountain people.
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Bonus Repost: That Day I Had to Run
Again in honor both of Black History Month and Linda Thomas-Greenfield's recent appointment as US ambassador to the United Nations, we repost our second chat with Linda from last summer: April 7, 1994, Rwanda. Not a good day to be mistaken for the acting Prime Minister. Linda Thomas-Greenfield shares the tale of her escape from the anti-government militia, while millions of others perished in the country’s genocide.
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December 17, 2010
Mohammed Bouazizi, an underemployed fruit seller, sets himself on fire, launching what we later began calling the Arab Spring. Ambassador Gordon Gray walks us through life on the ground in Tunisia, when things in the Arab world began to change. Plus, read Gray's article in the Foreign Service journal for greater insight, at this link: https://www.afsa.org/sites/default/files/flipping_book/010221/41/
Customer Reviews
Phenomenal
Where else are you going to hear this kind of content? Cannot recommend enough.
Excellent Show
Great content and conversation - but maybe less uh hum and mm hms from the hosts while guest is speaking.
Interesting , but
Found this podcast from a note in AFSA. Very interesting podcast and informative about life in the foreign service. But Laura Bennett brings down the podcast by interjecting too many surprised questions, like "really!" "Oh my goodness " , "what?!" Etc. it would be easier to listen to if she didn't interrupt the guests so often with her own reaction.
Featuring stories about American diplomacy around the world, the podcast is a little too focused on the Western Hemisphere at the expense of the rest of the world
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