Wives, Clerks, and 'Lady Diplomats': The Gendered Politics of Diplomacy and Representation in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1900-1940 by Molly M. Wood

“…As employees of the U.S. State Department, these women also maintained the representative qualities associated with diplomatic work. …”
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‘A Bazaar in the Coliseum': Marketing Southeast Asian Handicrafts in New York, 1956 by Jennifer Way

“…Furthermore, I identify the use of local material and visual culture in U.S. State Department aid programs active in the region, within American Cold War imperatives. …”
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Tracing China’s diplomatic transition to wolf warrior diplomacy and its implications by Shaoyu Yuan

“…The paper examines the underlying motivations for adopting the wolf warrior approach, using three case studies during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Twitter spat between Zhao Lijian and the U.S. State Department, the diplomatic conflict between China and Australia, and the confrontation between China and Sweden. …”
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Coming Home? The Integration of Hmong Refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand, into American Society by Grit Grigoleit

“…In December 2003, the U.S. State Department officially announced the acceptance of roughly 15,000 Hmong refugees from Wat Tham Krabok, Thailand, into the United States of America. …”
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The Problem of Women in the Department:  Sex and Gender Discrimination in the 1960s United States Foreign Diplomatic Service by Beatrice Loftus McKenzie

“…Alison Palmer, a United States Foreign Service Officer from 1959 to 1981, brought a gender equity complaint against the U.S. State Department in the late 1960s and then led a class action lawsuit by female officers that lasted until 2010.  …”
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With Heart and Soul: Closing a Faith-Based Refugee Resettlement Office by Ruth Hoogland DeHoog

“…The research is based on formal interviews with employees, agency executives, former employees, and representatives of the agency's national office that has a contract with the U.S. State Department to resettle refugees in North and South Carolina. …”
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The Process of Military Involvement of the USSR in the Afghan Conflict: a U.S. View by Taisiуa V. Rabush

“…Congress and a monthly bulletin from the U.S. State Department. Analysis. The special attention is paid to the period from the beginning of the spring of 1979 to the end of 1979, since it was during this period of time that the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan continued to grow. …”
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The Role of the State and the ISDS Trinity by Patrick W. Pearsall

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Wars and Regional Conflicts in Soviet Intelligence Reports of 1938 by Niyazi Niyazov, Galina Niyazova

“…It is noteworthy that the sources of the Soviet intelligence agency were close to Chiang Kaishek and his wife Soong May-ling, and got access to the reports of American attaché to the U.S. State Department. Conclusion. The authors state that the diversified information sent by the Soviet intelligence agency revealed wrong views of Soviet political leaders on the character of the future war, showing that potential allies were not willing to get rid of their interests to receive military and economic aid from the USSR.…”
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Defining and Redefining U.S.-Africa Trade Relations During the Trump Presidency by Stephen Lande, Dennis Matanda

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Control, Capacity, and Legitimacy in Investment Treaty Arbitration by Jeremy K. Sharpe

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“These Girls Never Give Statements”: Anti-Trafficking Interventions and “Victim-Witness Testimony” in India by Vibhuti Ramachandran

“…Framing sex trafficking as primarily a law enforcement and criminal justice issue, the U.S. State Department funds global South NGOs to work with the Indian legal system to strengthen prosecutions of sex trafficking cases. …”
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Mining events with declassified diplomatic documents by Mazumder, Rahul

“…Since 1973, the U.S. State Department has been using electronic record systems to preserve classified communications. …”
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External Factors’ Influence on Course of the April 25, 1974 Revolution in Portugal by D. N. Ermolovich

“…The analysis extensively utilizes documentary materials published by the U.S. State Department during the period under consideration, as well as memoirs by Portuguese and foreign authors. …”
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Orientalizing Vietnam: The American Cold War, its “Problems” with Refugee Handicraft Artisans, and their Relationship to Barthes’s Mythology by Jennifer Way

“…This paper examines discourses of orientalism narrating the political and cultural significance of representations of Vietnamese handicraft that the U.S. State Department’s International Cooperation Administration’s handicraft production and export program in Southeast Asia published in American craft, design and art journals and used in trade and department store exhibitions from 1955 to 1961. …”
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The United States and Singapore, 1974–1980 : a diplomatic history by Ong, Glenn Kok Hui

“…Marshaling documents from the U.S. State Department, the White House, the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as memoirs and speeches of key foreign policymakers, this study engages with and contributes to a burgeoning corpus of works investigating U.S.…”
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Reinventando a história: Lincoln Gordon e as suas múltiplas versões de 1964 Reinventing history: Lincoln Gordon and his multiple versions of 1964 by James N. Green, Abigail Jones

“…At the time, and in the following years, Gordon, however, insisted that the coup d’etat was "100 percent Brazilian." Using U.S. State Department documents, Gordon’s speeches, oral histories, and a 2005 interview with the former ambassador, this article analyzes the changing justifications that Gordon has offered over the last forty years to explain why he supported the overthrow of Goulart and gave unconditional support to the new military regime.…”
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Failure to engage : the Breasted-Rockefeller gift of a new Egyptian Museum and Research Institute at Cairo (1926) by Dawood, Azra

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