Foreign Service Journal

Harry Kopp is a frequent contributor to the Foreign Service Journal, a publication of the American Foreign Service Association. The Journal, published 10 times a year, is available in print (circulation 19,000) and is free online at afsa.org/foreign-service-journal, with an archive of all issues, from 1919 to the present.

Kopp’s recent contributions include:

January-February 2024: Article — “AFSA’s First Hundred Years.”

March 2022: Book review — Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy, by Jeffrey E. Garten.

November 2021: Book review — The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917, by Philip Zelikow.

July 2021: Article — “Diversity and Inclusion in the US Foreign Service: A Primer.”

October 2020: Sidebar — “Loyalty Oaths in America.”

September 2020: Book review — From Sadat to Saddam: The Decline of American Diplomacy in the Middle East, by David J. Dunford.

April 2020: Book Review — Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice, by Alan McPherson. 

January-February 2020: Article — “Truth and Honor.”

October 2019, Book review — From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Ukraine, by Daniel Serwer.

May 2019: Article — “Role Models: Lessons for Today from AFSA’s Past.”

April 2019: Book Review — Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level, by James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, and Robert H. Mnookin.

September 2018: Article — “Blue-Ribbon Blues: Why So Many Great Reports and Good Ideas Go Nowhere.”

July 2018: Book review — War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft, by Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris.

April 2018: Article — “A Century of Journals.”

January 2018: Book review — Nixon’s Back Channel to Moscow, by Richard A. Moss.

September 2017: Article — “The State of Dissent in the Foreign Service.”

July-August 2017: Book review — “Foreign Service” by James Dobbins.

May 2014: Article — “Foreign Service, Civil Service: How We Got to Where We Are.”

April 2013: Article — “Paving the Way for Unionization.”