In our newest episode, State Department lawyer Mike Peay traces how, during a time of deep racial conflict, black American jazz artists went overseas to promote the American experiment, winning the hearts of millions with their music and personas, but would it improve race relations at home?
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Pete's granddaughter Baby Charlotte spits up on the bongos gifted to her by our most recent guest, Jeffrey Franca of Thievery Corporation. Nice one, Charlie! 😆
All Peace Is Local
NEW PODCAST: Our guest is Keith Mines, a Foreign Service Officer with 33 years of government service, starting as a missionary in Columbia during the conflict there. Also a Platoon Leader in Grenada, Special Forces advisor in El Salvador for Salvadoran troops, served in Somalia, El Salvador again, Haiti, Afghanistan twice, Iraq, Darfur, Mexico leading the American initiative against narco-traffickers / narco-gangs in Mexico. I can't think of a better person to write a book about nation-building and why we need to do it. Which is to say when things go awry, when States are fragile are failing or failed.... What can we do? What do we need to do if it's in our national interest to help and what happens if we don’t?
Mines has written extensively on post-conflict stabilization, measures short of war, and the roots of civil conflict. His book, “Why Nation Building Matters: Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States” is due out in August 2020 by the University of Nebraska Press. Mr. Mines has a bachelor’s in history from Brigham Young University and a master’s in foreign service from Georgetown University.
Keith Mines is a senior advisor for Colombia and Venezuela in United States Institute of Peace’s Applied Conflict Transformation Center.
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Pedro Pan
Start your week off right with the American Diplomat - Real Stories Behind The News podcast.
Pedro Pan and the Guerrillas podcast episode.
We're talking to Phil Chicola, who served 33-years as a Foreign Service Officer all over the globe. Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Croatia, Brazil and Vancouver as Consul General.
There are two things we want to talk to Phil about. First, Pedro Pan - Peter Pan in Spanish. What was it and why was it important?
Second, the year 1999. Pete sends Phil on a secret mission to talk to the Colombian revolutionary guerrillas (FARC). What happened?
Full disclosure, Phil and Pete have known each other for 40 years. They've been through some tough times together and some fun times too. Were going to talk about both.
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Genocide of the Rohingya
Ambassador Shari Villarosa, Chargé in Myanmar 2005-08, helps us understand the genocide of the Rohingya. New #Podcast
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Rohingya Genocide
We're talking to Ambassador Shari Villarosa who was Chargé in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, from 2005 to 2008. She's going to help us understand what it was like in that country, which she has described more than once as surreal and she's going to help us understand the Rohingya people, which is a marginalized and small ethnic group in a corner of Myanmar that has been persecuted. Some call it a genocide. Who do we in the West imagine might have prevented that from happening? Aung Sun Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner whom the West pinned a lot of hopes on, But she basically presided over or what many are calling genocide.
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Our highest rated episode yet
Our highest rated episode! “A Life Of Significance” Our guest are Ron Neumann, President of the American Academy of Diplomacy & Marc Grossman a Vice-Chairman of The Cohen Group, strategic business advisory firm of former Secretary of Defense William Cohen. https://amdipstories.org
A Life Of Significance
Our highest rated #podcast episode! “A Life Of Significance” Our guest are Ron Neumann, the President of the American Academy of Diplomacy & Marc Grossman a Vice-Chairman of The Cohen Group, strategic business advisory firm of former Secretary of Defense William Cohen. https://amdipstories.org
“A Life Of Significance” Our guest are Ron Neumann, the President of the American Academy of Diplomacy & Marc Grossman a Vice-Chairman of The Cohen Group, the strategic business advisory firm of former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Senator William Cohen. https://amdipstories.org
ISIS in Kosovo?
Why did all these young men from Kosovo go to Syria to fight against Assad for ISIS? NEW American Diplomat: Real Stories Behind The News episode: When ISIS Comes Home. Listen / Subscribe on iTunes bit.ly/AmericanDiplomat or iHeartRadio bit.ly/AmDipStories or Google http://bit.ly/AmDipGooglePod
Remember The Last Impeachment?
Our guest on the current podcast episode is James Dobbins, who had a 39-year career in Foreign Service including Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. His latest book is called Foreign Service - A behind the scenes look at 50 years of US diplomacy. Ambassador Romero and Dobbins were both in the Clinton administration during the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Romero was Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs and Dobbins was the National Security Council Director for Latin America. We discuss what goes on in inside an administration during impeachment proceedings.
On The American Diplomat Position podcast we feature first-person storytelling from American diplomats who have participated in newsworthy events overseas. Hosted by an experienced former ambassador and inquisitive writer/director, the casual conversations are educational and entertaining by providing context, details and definitions to the guest real-life stories from behind-the-scenes of international diplomacy.
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Ambassador (ret.) Pete Romero entertains co-host Laura Bennett with #BTS stories of international parties, famous guest and political entertainment aboard the Presidential Yacht Sequoia #PartyCentral on "Sequoia is a She" episode of The American Diplomat - The Stories Behind The News podcast. Listen for all the details you’ve never heard before about Churchill, Nixon + 6 additional US Presidents. ⠀
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Bill Burns new book The Back Channel
On the current episode of The American Diplomat - The Stories Behind The News co-hosts Ambassador (ret.) Pete Romero and Ms. Laura Bennett have a casual conversation with former Deputy Sec. of State Bill Burns about his engaging new book The Back Channel. http://bit.ly/AmericanDiplomat
