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American Diplomat — 473 episodes
And in Other News…The Western Sahara
My Romance With Romania
Diplomacy is Empathy
Crisis Du Jour
What They Don't Want You to Know
Y2K to H1B?
Politics by Other Means?
Persona No Deseada
"This Golden Land"
USAID: Into The Wood Chipper
The Case of the Powdered Orange Drink
Loose Nukes
Diplomat Lounge: Iran, A Way Out of the Mess
Remember the Old Days (Say, 2020)?
The Rise and Demise of The House of Orban
"That Devil Feltman"
Diplomat Lounge: How To Fix Fear and Loathing in a Post Trump World
Saudi and Israel – It's Complicated
Sampling Shawarma on the Champs-Elysees in Za'atari Refugee Camp
Is "Soft Power" Really So Soft?
How the Sausage is Made: 25YA
Gen Z And Their Take on America's Future
Special Envoys: Cleanup on Aisle Seven
Now That's Incredible! (Yes, it is.)
Where Intelligence Meets Diplomacy
PoliticsUS/Israel: Does the Tail Wag the Dog?
What Explains The Global Rise of Anti-Semitism?
Strategic Patience: Can We Return to Diplomacy?
Venezuela: Gunboat Diplomacy Redux
Bottoms Up! In Vodka Veritas Once More!
A Diplomatic Holiday To You!
Clown Car or Security Strategy?
Venezuela: Be Careful What You Wish For
Milei: Man or Maniac?
From Harlem Hellfighters to The Jazz Ambassadors - A Tale of Hope
Space: Catching Up to the 21st Century
The Discord Rebellion - Nepal
We'll Be Back
The Insurrection Act: Can the Courts Stop Trump?
POTUS Attacks Venezuelan Soil…So what?
The Gaza Peace Plan: What Could Go Wrong?
The Most Dangerous Place to be in DC?
Venezuela: The President's Flotilla
Mexico's Steel Magnolia
Estonia: Punching Above Its Weight
Trump: Bread and Circus
Human Rights, Twisted and Bent
Reality Show: Canada
The Jihadi Whisperer
The Hole in Putin's Imperial Designs
Ukraine: Does Moral Truth Still Exist?
What Happened to the Man of My Dreams?
Encore: Who Lost China?
America Alone?
The Incredible Shrinking Trade Partner
The Last of the Cold Warriors is Gone - Now What?
Attacks on Iran: Salvation or Quagmire
Colombia: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Are the Chinese Coming for You?
Lebanon: Finally, A Ray of Hope, or Just a Flash Bang?
Have You No Sense of Decency, Mr. Secretary?
The Pastry Chef, the Hand Grenade, the OSS and Vietnam
Politics of Retribution
Is the Chaos at State Over?
Squeezing Blood From a Stone
What's Behind the Trump-Bukele Bromance?
Democracy Prevails!
Universities in the Trump Crosshairs
DEI: Enemy of the People?
South Africans Don't Like to be Bullied
We are Americans and we stand for something.
How is Trump 2.0 Like An Onion?
Tariff Wars
When Economists Wage War
USAID and the Fate of Gazans
Mar-A-Panama?
Mar-A-Greenland? What Do the Europeans Think?
Trump 2.0: Is Humiliation the Point?
"America First" Meets the Global Economic Machinery
Looking Around the Corner Before It's Too Late
Syria: Money's Gotta Flow
In Vodka Veritas! Encore!
2025: A Year of Frenemies?
Keeping Them Home: The Private Sector Steps Up
Global Agreement: Online Predators Dealt a Setback
Fit for Purpose: Modernization at State
Our Friend Hosay and the Value of Immigration
Disinformation's Sputnik Moment
Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel and Iran - the Pieces, Together
The Trump Foreign Policy: First 90 Days
I'm Going to Kathmandu - Encore
War Criminals Held to Account
There Is Always Hope – Encore
Just Don't Call Them, "the Baltics"
Viva la Presidenta!
Benghazied!
Digital Militias and Collective Delusion
War Game – See this Film!
The World Is Burning
Trade is Leaving the Planet
Attempted Takeover of Voice of America
This Steal Was For Real: Venezuela
Behind the White House Curtain
Rivalry on Earth, Rivalry in Space
Space Diplomacy
NATO Summit: Too Hot, Too Cold or Just Right?
Cognitive Warfare
More Travels With Pete – Huarani Part 2
Starlink in the Amazon? Uh-oh.
AI - Demon Taking Over, or Tool for Diplomacy?
Global Fragility Act
Geopolitics Thrills!
From Harlem Hellfighters to the Jazz Ambassadors, A Leap of Faith
Will Mexico Dodge the Bullet?
Two State Solution - Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good?
Russian Mercenaries' Regime Survival Kit
100 Years old and Still Kicking It: The US Foreign Service
Shakespearean Tragedy: Cuba
Data Saves Lives
Professional Peacemaker
Will Biden Listen to His Base?
The Next Thousand Years
Inked
The Fire Was Even Hotter
Never in My Parents' Wildest Dreams
One Million!!!
Out To Get Us
Crowing about President Crow
"You're Calling Us Global Terrorists? Oooh, Scare Me."
A Rangel Fellow's Journey to Service - BHM
Don't Poke the Panda - Taiwan's Election
No More Funny Business in Guatemala (For Now)
The Border, Part 2: This is North America's Moment
Zone of Opportunity: Trust at the Border
Cybercrime: Everybody's a Target
It Wasn't All Bad, Was It?
You Are Stuck and Trapped
Betrayal and Treason - Why?
How Corruption Destroys Democracy
A Win for Democracy in Poland!
Thanksgiving with Thievery Corporation: Unity, Love, Positivity
Dissent and Its Consequences
Barbados Agreement - Venezuela and the US
What's Your Exit Strategy?
Problems Without Passports
Permanent Rage: Palestine and Israel
Señor Menendez Goes to Washington
Putin, North Korea, and Why Democracies Last 250 Years
A "More Perfect" Union
Lawfare and the International Criminal Court
Putin: Indicted War Criminal
A Dictator, An Election, and US Interests
China, National Security and Our Economy
From Deportee to AID
Selective Hypocrisy
Israel "Reforms"
Now's the Time in Ukraine - Gen. Spider Marks
Go For It!
Wagner's Ascent to Control in Central Africa
The Stars Over the Red Sea
Party on John's Gunboat! Happy Fourth!
Impeached and Arrested and In Good Company
Hot Dog Man Gone Bad
"Wolf Warrior Diplomacy" in China?
A Diplomat's Gender Transition
Sex Up This Cable!
The Diplomat - You Asked!
Turkey's Election - Why a Runoff?
Israel's Judicial Reforms
Whither NATO?
Scarcity Colors Everything - China Policy (Encore)
City and State Diplomacy
South Korea State Visit, April 26
Authoritarian Demagogue or Savior?
Human Rights in Foreign Policy
In Case of Democracy Break Glass
We Live in a Male Culture
How'd They Do It?
You Are Free Now
Human Trafficking – Our Country, Every Country
The Triad of US Forces in Ukraine
The Three-Legged Stool in Ukraine
Women, Life, Freedom in Iran
Brazil – January 8
Now We Have to Have Women
Hostage Diplomacy
It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - 2022
Pete Goes Native – Second Part of Pete's Visit with the Indians – Encore
Cowboys and Indian at the Embassy - Encore
Home (from the Revolution) for Christmas
Rational, Ruthless, Resilient - The 3 Rs of Dictatorship
Shrink of the Foreign Service
Protests, and China's Endless Complexity
Happy Thanksgiving From AmDip!
Maikel
The Spy Who (I Thought) Loved Me
Gender Apartheid and Protests in Iran
Encore - That Day I Had to Run
Yale, Pale and Male?
Niño Maravilla
Muppets Live
Don't Ask About the Elevator
Glamping With the Masters of the Desert (encore)
Cyberdiplomacy Is....What, Exactly?
Does the Knot Hold?
Annual Music Ep for the End of Summer!
Schedule F, and Why It Scares Us
Media Integrity and the Americas
Enemies Foreign and Domestic
Empathy For Lived Experiences
"Never, Ever Allow Free and Fair Elections"
Take Me to Funky Town
In Vodka Veritas
The Merchant of Death is Back in the News
The Failure of the Liberal Democratic Model
Cross-Border Diplomacy
Gift or Gaffe?
Planning the Summit
The Assistant Secretary of State on the Summit of the Americas
Climbing the Summit
We Are Going to Win
Enchiladas and Golumpkis
Tweeting Is Not Acting
Encore: Desiree Cormier – Africa and Tijuana
Threats to the Foreign Service
Countering Genocide
Ukraine: The Will to Fight
Memories of Madeleine, "The Serpent"
Do Sanctions Work?
I Would Rather Be America
Energy Diplomacy and the War in Ukraine
Where Is Latin America on Putin's Aggression?
There Is Always Hope
Black History as Experienced by Michael Peay
Ukraine - What's Putin's Game?
Spider Schneider
Want to Be a US Ambassador? Pay Up.
Kazakhstan: Popular Uprising or Palace Intrigue?
He's Not Miss Universe, but He'll Have to Do
Democracy Threatened
In Vodka Veritas, with Dick Hoagland
Holiday Encore - Unity, Love, Positivity
Our Time to Serve
Haiti - What Went Wrong?
A Badge of Honor?
Annual AmDip Thanksgiving Special
One of the Most Pointless Wars in History
From the Middle East to Rural America
Powell's Inimitable Leadership
Love Letter to Colin Powell
Nothing is Impossible, with Ted Osius
From Soaking Wet to Very Big Business
Toobah is Free!
Nicaragua, Nicaragüita
The Summer of the Cockroaches
9/11, Personal Inventory and a New Career
The Last Officer at Abbey Gate
The Future of American Diplomacy
Toobah Evacuation Update
These Are Not My Beautiful Feet
This Didn't Have to Happen
And What of Our Friend Toobah?
Whaddaya Do?
Encore: The Ugly American
Encore: Bahrain, So Small, So Important
They Will Cut Our Heads, Of Course!
Don't Let Us Be Killed
Encore: Send Lawyers, Guns and Money
Encore: We'll Always Have Paris
Encore: Who Lost China?
Encore: Stay Home and Pour the Tea
Dull, Duller, Dulles
Encore: Pedro Pan and the Guerrillas
The Sky is Green!
Scarcity Colors Everything
A Bag of Doritos: It's Happening
Biden Gets an Incomplete (So Far)
The Mother of All Conspiracy Theories
Her Fathers' Death: It Just Doesn't Add Up
A JFK Assassination Tipster's Demise
Diversity Across the Generations at State
Is 757 Years Enough?
Smuggling Cubans
Combatting Anti-Blackness as a Diplomat of Color
Onboarding Online
F.W. de Klerk, Winnie Mandela and Cyril Ramaposa
Trifecta
Bahrain, So Small, So Important
The Shining City on the Hill?
The Secret Dinners
The Ugly American
Bonus Repost: That Day I Had to Run
December 17, 2010
Bouns Repost - A Few Choice Words
The Nile Just Keeps Flowing
The Merchant of Death
The Dirty Money Tracker
Hiatus Post - More with Gina Winstanley
Hiatus post: Gina Winstanley's Adventures in the Middle East
Hiatus Post - Pete Goes Native
Hiatus Repost - Cowboys and Indian at the Embassy
Hiatus Post - Foreign Service Test? Quiz Show? You Decide.
AmDip Thanksgiving Special!
Hiatus Post - Bill Burns: The Back Channel
Hiatus Post - The Man of My Dreams
That Day I Had to Run
A Few Choice Words
Bananas Was His Business
Malfeasances Aside...
My Job is to Keep You out of Jail
The World's Blindest Power?
Ukraine is Not Dead Yet
Second Annual AmDip Greatest Hits!
Colombia: Bloodless Theater in the Jungle
A Grandfather's Love and Legacy
Bonus Episode - The Lovely Miriam Gutierrez
The Day Beirut Exploded
TikTok: Dance Party or Trojan Horse?
Quiz: What Do Bernie and Trump Agree on?
A Black Diplomat? You're Lying.
This Ain't the Manhattan Project
Who Stole My Axe?
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend?
The First Woman Ambassador to Thailand
The Man of My Dreams
Hong Kong: The Chinese are Coming!
The State Department Spokesperson's Dilemmas
The Scorpion and the Frog - Egypt's Morsi
I'm an Inspector General and I'm Here to Help
Saving Lives: Collaborate or Vilify?
"Get Me Out of Here!"
Stay Home and Pour the Tea
When You Shouldn't Follow the Rules (Repost)
Repatriating Americans During COVID
Unity, Love, Positivity
School Scandal in Jakarta
AmDip Carries On
Glamping With the Masters, and with Vicki, Again
Vicki Huddleston is Back as Well
The Great Bill Burns is Back
Ralph Bunche, Accidental Diplomat
Tales from the Vault
We Are In!
Democracy Wins!
A Student of Leadership
All Peace is Local
Could This Happen to Me?
What is Nation-Building?
Foreign Service Test? Quiz Show? You Decide.
Pedro Pan and the Guerrillas
Who Lost China?
Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar
Sidebar - Parsing Iran Brinksmanship
Perils of the Press, in Mexico-US Relations
War and Peace in Trade
A Life of Significance
Immunity, Reciprocity, Espionage
Diplomatic Immunity?
When Ambassadorships Are for Sale
Thanksgiving with AmDip!
When ISIS Comes Home
Remember the Last Impeachment?
Estonia's Success Story
Diplomacy After the Bombs Have Fallen
Heroes of US Diplomacy - Lizzie Slater
Corruption vs. the Ambassador
Sequoia is a She
Send Lawyers, Guns and Money
Love in the Time of Tweet Diplomacy
Jim Jones (Not the One You're Thinking Of)
We'll Always Have Paris
Desiree, Encore!
Rock On, AmDip!
I'm Goin' to Kathmandu
Freedom for Ethiopian Jews
Think About a Career in Public Service
Bill Burns - The Back Channel
Glamping with the Masters of the Desert
Mali - Most Dangerous Peacekeeping Mission on Earth
Sandinismo 2.0
Liberation Day, Nicaragua!
Ajani Husbands, Dreadlock Diplomat
AIDS - Health Diplomacy
12 Days in the Hotseat
Slip Out the Back, Jack
Money, Money, Money
Bromance? Trump and Brazil's Bolsonaro
What, More Feeley and Brownfield?
Foreign Service Day
Here I Am, Now What?
Fulanita's Progress, An Immigration Tale
Plastics
Quick Bonus ep! Future of the Foreign Service
The Diplomat Environmentalist
Ever Hear of Ebenezer Bassett?
Immigration Made Simple
And How Long Will You Be Staying?
Remember Ron Brown?
Wonderful, Weird, Incredibly Dangerous Naples
Baby's Got the Bends
Only the Paranoid Survive
Jeff DeLaurentis Knows a Lot About Cuba
Chavez Gives Pete Four Pinocchios
Anwar Awlaki and Abrar
Hysteria or Reality? China in Panama
Counterterrorism - The Diplomat's Perspective
More Fun Facts about Trade
Questions, Questions...
College Students Visit State
A Public Servant in the Private Sector
When You Shouldn't Follow the Rules
Secretary of State James Baker Reflects on Bush and Our Times
The Dictator Hit Parade
President vs. Strongman: No Peace in Angola
Bonus Chat - Is It Happening Here?
The Cult of Jim Jones - Murder-Suicide in Guyana
How Did Erdogan Do It? - Is it Happening Here?
Turkey's Erdogan - Is It Happening Here?
Stove-piped to Death?
Take Care of Your People: Bombing in Nairobi, 1998
Expeditionary Diplomacy is What, Exactly?
Can We Make a Diplomat of Laura? Laura in the Hot Seat
Who Knew? Diplomatic Training, Revealed
Bouazizi, Arab Spring, SiriusXM and Is It Happening Here?
Tamil Genocide - History Repeats Itself?
Tamil Tigers - The Memory Still Haunts Sri Lanka
Russia - Is It Happening Here? Putin Consolidates Power
Russia - Is It Happening Here? "He Must Be Like Putin"
Pete Goes Native - Second Part of Pete's Visit with the Indians
Cowboys and Indian at the Embassy
Soybean Laura Goes to Washington
Venezuela: Is it Happening Here? Chavez Takes Control
Venezuela: Is It Happening Here?
Is It Happening Here?
I've Been Kicked Out of Better Countries Than This
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Send Lawyers, Guns and Money
Who Says America Never Wins Anymore?
Tijuana: What Could Go Wrong?
Go With God, Children!
Little Elian Gonzalez
Fidel's Eyes Are Everywhere, and Cuba's Special Period
Fidel and Our Woman in Havana
John Feeley & the FARC: Colombia's Guerilla Revolutionaries
Iran Deal - Wendy Sherman Negotiates
John Feeley - Panama Papers
Andrew Albertson - Three Explosions in Afghanistan
Gina Winstanley, Oman and Saudi Arabia
Jonathan Addleton - The Dust of Kandahar
Ajani Husbands - Islamabad and Port Au Prince
Desiree Cormier - Africa and Tijuana
Desiree Cormier - Creole, Colored or Black?
Robert Blake - Sri Lanka, Terror Escalates
Robert Blake - Terror in Sri Lanka
Pete Romero - Plan Colombia, Part 2
Pete Romero - Plan Colombia, Part 1
Wendy Sherman - Iran Deal
Wendy Sherman - Baltimore to Pyongyang
Charles Ray - Golf with a Dictator
Charles Ray - Zimbabwe's Authoritarian
Charles English - Murder-Suicide in Guyana
Mike Senko - Grenades and Guns
Tom Miller - Soldiers Without Weapons
Tom Miller - Drugs and Thugs
Dennis Jett on Lori Berenson and Why He Joined the Foreign Service
Dennis Jett and Liberia's Civil War
Ron Neumann - Vietnam to Afghanistan
Lino Gutierrez - Part 2
Lino Gutierrez - Part 1
Tim Carney - Part 2
Gina Winstanley - Part 2
Gina Winstanley - Part 1
Tim Carney - Part 1