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 | 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 | Mar 2, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The Blame Game had already begun less than 24 hours after Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on a bridge in the shadow of the Kremlin. The Russian propaganda machine – well in overdrive for a year – is now pointing the finger...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Feb 9, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe with Patricia H. KushlisThe U.S. and Cuba have been negotiating the terms for normalizing relations. This means it’s not too early to think of what an appropriate American public diplomacy strategy might look like. The most visible stumbling...
