by Maggie Feldman-Piltch | Jun 30, 2014 | Monitor
A June 25th blog post by National Defense Magazine discussed comments made by panelists Deputy Secretary Higginbottom, Alex Thier of USAID, and Special Representative to the QDDR Tom Perriello, at ASP’s QDDR on the Hill event that a healthy budget and...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis This is the fifth in a series of posts about Joan Wadelton, a veteran Foreign Service officer fired last year for blowing the whistle on longstanding corruption in the State Department’s Human Resources Bureau. Here are links to the first four:...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jul 7, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Standing on principle is rarely a good place to find one's feet in the shifting world of international politics – if that’s the reason the Russian government continues to behave as it does with respect to its apparent unflinching...