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The Five Gringas
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The Joys and Perils of Serving Abroad
The Joys and Perils of Serving Abroad is Diego and Nancy Asencio's account of their experiences over the course of Diego's long careet in the Foreign Service. From Diego's initial posting in 1957 to his retirement in 1986, the Foreign Service offered the Asencios and their five children fascinating lessons about new cultures, people and places. But the Asencios also had to contend with quotidian frustrations imposed by bean counters back home and with episodic life-threatening situations, including Diego's kidnapping by a Colombian paramilitary terrorist group. Nancy and Diego tell their family's story-all of it, the joys and the perils-with honesty and a great deal of humor.
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Cuba
Fidel Castro's revolution and its foreign policy extensions have been the source of much U.S.-Latin American policy frustration during the last 30 years. Not only the ideological tensions, but the almost global sweep of Cuba's national pretensions have consumed U.S. resources and political capital, and thrust a small island nation to the forefront of global intrigue and crisis. But as this volume shows, there are signs that Cuba's internationalism is now at a crossroads. Fauriol and Loser have gathered together a distinguished group of specialists on Cuba to review principal aspects of Cuba's international relations. Among the new dimensions discussed are shifts in Cuba's African policy, the...
Raging Within
Examines twentieth-century political violence in Europe, Asia, and South America, including the Red Army Faction, 17 November, and Tupac Amaru.
Engaging Extremists
Engaging Extremists concerns negotiation with political terrorist organizations, separating terrorist groups that can be engaged from those that, for the moment, cannot.
American Diplomats
What do the men and women of America's diplomatic corps do? William D. Morgan and Charles Stuart Kennedy, themselves career diplomats, culled over 1400 oral interviews with their Foreign Service peers to present forty excerpts covering events from the 1920s to the 1990s. Insiders recount what happens when a consul spies on Nazi Germany, Mao Tse-Tung drops by for a chat, the Cold War begins with the Berlin blockade, the Marshall Plan rescues Europe, Sukarno moves Indonesia into the communist camp, Khrushchev calls President Kennedy an SOB, and our ambassador is murdered in Kabul. "You are there" accounts deepen readers' understanding, as diplomatic and consular officers talk about the beginni...
Borrowings in Informal American English
Based on a rich range of sources, this pioneering book provides a comprehensive description of informal borrowings in American English.
