by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 22, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis I was skeptical about the durability of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement when I first saw the news of its signing. It seemed to be too good to be true. The bitter civil war between the Ulster government and the IRA that had engulfed Northern...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 26, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis What ever happened to the professional American diplomat? Or can the world’s second oldest profession even still be considered a profession in these United States? Is the State Department, the country’s oldest cabinet department which is tasked...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 16, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Even during the darkest days of the Cold War, leaders of the US and the Soviet Union met to discuss areas of agreement and disagreement to keep international conflicts from escalating out of control. Such was Secretary John Kerry’s recent...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 4, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis For such a small country, international concern over the civil war in Syria is outsized. As they say in real estate, however, location is everything and Syria borders on any number of countries in the Middle East from Turkey to the north to...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 6, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis (The following speech by Patricia H. Kushlis on the future of Diplomacy was delivered at OASIS (Albuquerque, NM) on Monday, February 4, 2013) On Thursday, January 24th John Kerry sailed through his hour long hearing in front of former colleagues...
