by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 9, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Robert Service’s The End of the Cold War 1985-1991 is foremost a retelling of the nuclear arms control negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era. Other issues are found in the chapters that form the last two...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Aug 11, 2016 | Monitor
By Joan Wadelton, Guest Contributor When King Augeas asked Hercules to clean out his stables, Hercules – seeing that the task was impossible by normal means – rerouted two rivers to wash out the years of filth. A tale those of us in Washington should heed, lest the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Apr 28, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis In three days, the international media will have long forgotten last week’s centenary of the Armenian “genocide” and moved on to the fortieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, an event in history which still reigns as a...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 12, 2015 | Monitor
by Joan Wadelton, Guest Contributor The Department of State’s administrative misdeeds have become increasingly serious, much more commonplace and disturbingly costly. The list of failures across the spectrum of management functions (by which I mean the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 3, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The good news is that the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy has seemingly risen from the ashes – or more accurately been wrested from the clutches of a member of the US Congress who refused to vote for the pittance required to keep this...