American Diplomat

By Ambassador (Retired) Pete Romero and Writer/Producer Laura Bennett

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Kristen Mason
 Jan 7, 2019

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American Diplomat goes behind the scenes to hear real stories from diplomats who lived newsworthy events overseas. Experience the Cuban revolution, Central American insurgencies, the end of apartheid and more through the eyes of those who were there. A project of Arizona State University.

Episode Date
The Next Thousand Years
Mar 28, 2024
Inked
Mar 21, 2024
The Fire Was Even Hotter
Mar 14, 2024
Never in My Parents’ Wildest Dreams
Mar 07, 2024
One Million!!!
Mar 04, 2024
Out To Get Us
Feb 29, 2024
Crowing about President Crow
Feb 22, 2024
"You're Calling Us Global Terrorists? Oooh, Scare Me."
Feb 15, 2024
A Rangel Fellow’s Journey to Service - BHM
Feb 08, 2024
Don't Poke the Panda - Taiwan's Election
Feb 01, 2024
No More Funny Business in Guatemala (For Now)
Jan 25, 2024
The Border, Part 2: This is North America’s Moment
Jan 18, 2024
Zone of Opportunity: Trust at the Border
Jan 11, 2024
Cybercrime: Everybody’s a Target
Jan 04, 2024
It Wasn't All Bad, Was It?
Dec 28, 2023
You Are Stuck and Trapped
Dec 20, 2023
Betrayal and Treason - Why?
Dec 14, 2023
How Corruption Destroys Democracy
Dec 07, 2023
A Win for Democracy in Poland!
Nov 30, 2023
Thanksgiving with Thievery Corporation: Unity, Love, Positivity
Nov 23, 2023
Dissent and Its Consequences
Nov 15, 2023
Barbados Agreement - Venezuela and the US
Nov 09, 2023
What's Your Exit Strategy?
Nov 02, 2023
Problems Without Passports
Oct 27, 2023
Permanent Rage: Palestine and Israel
Oct 19, 2023
Señor Menendez Goes to Washington
Oct 12, 2023
Putin, North Korea, and Why Democracies Last 250 Years
Oct 05, 2023
A "More Perfect" Union
Sep 28, 2023
Lawfare and the International Criminal Court
Sep 21, 2023
Putin: Indicted War Criminal
Sep 14, 2023
A Dictator, An Election, and US Interests
Sep 07, 2023
China, National Security and Our Economy
Aug 31, 2023
From Deportee to AID
Aug 24, 2023
Selective Hypocrisy
Aug 17, 2023
Israel "Reforms"
Aug 11, 2023
Now's the Time in Ukraine - Gen. Spider Marks
Aug 03, 2023
Go For It!
Jul 27, 2023
Wagner's Ascent to Control in Central Africa
Jul 21, 2023
The Stars Over the Red Sea
Jul 13, 2023
Party on John’s Gunboat! Happy Fourth!
Jul 05, 2023
Impeached and Arrested and In Good Company
Jun 29, 2023
Hot Dog Man Gone Bad
Jun 22, 2023
"Wolf Warrior Diplomacy" in China?
Jun 15, 2023
A Diplomat's Gender Transition
Jun 08, 2023
Sex Up This Cable!
Jun 01, 2023
The Diplomat - You Asked!
May 25, 2023
Turkey’s Election - Why a Runoff?
May 18, 2023
Israel's Judicial Reforms
May 11, 2023
Whither NATO?
May 04, 2023
Scarcity Colors Everything - China Policy (Encore)
Apr 27, 2023
City and State Diplomacy
Apr 20, 2023
South Korea State Visit, April 26
Apr 13, 2023
Authoritarian Demagogue or Savior?
Apr 06, 2023
Human Rights in Foreign Policy
Mar 30, 2023
In Case of Democracy Break Glass
Mar 23, 2023
We Live in a Male Culture
Mar 16, 2023
How'd They Do It?
Mar 09, 2023
You Are Free Now
Mar 02, 2023
Human Trafficking – Our Country, Every Country
Feb 24, 2023
The Triad of US Forces in Ukraine
Feb 16, 2023
The Three-Legged Stool in Ukraine
Feb 09, 2023
Women, Life, Freedom in Iran
Feb 03, 2023
Brazil – January 8
Jan 26, 2023
Now We Have to Have Women
Jan 19, 2023
Hostage Diplomacy
Jan 12, 2023
It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - 2022
Jan 05, 2023
Pete Goes Native – Second Part of Pete’s Visit with the Indians – Encore
Dec 29, 2022
Cowboys and Indian at the Embassy - Encore
Dec 28, 2022
Home (from the Revolution) for Christmas
Dec 22, 2022
Rational, Ruthless, Resilient - The 3 Rs of Dictatorship
Dec 15, 2022
Shrink of the Foreign Service
Dec 08, 2022
Protests, and China's Endless Complexity
Dec 02, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving From AmDip!
Nov 24, 2022
Maikel
Nov 18, 2022
The Spy Who (I Thought) Loved Me
Nov 10, 2022
Gender Apartheid and Protests in Iran
Nov 03, 2022
Encore - That Day I Had to Run
Oct 27, 2022
Yale, Pale and Male?
Oct 20, 2022
Niño Maravilla
Oct 13, 2022
Muppets Live
Oct 06, 2022
Don't Ask About the Elevator
Sep 29, 2022
Glamping With the Masters of the Desert (encore)
Sep 22, 2022
Cyberdiplomacy Is....What, Exactly?
Sep 15, 2022
Does the Knot Hold?
Sep 08, 2022
Annual Music Ep for the End of Summer!
Sep 01, 2022
Schedule F, and Why It Scares Us
Aug 25, 2022
Media Integrity and the Americas
Aug 18, 2022
Enemies Foreign and Domestic
Aug 11, 2022
Empathy For Lived Experiences
Aug 04, 2022
"Never, Ever Allow Free and Fair Elections"
Jul 28, 2022
Take Me to Funky Town
Jul 21, 2022
In Vodka Veritas
Jul 16, 2022
The Merchant of Death is Back in the News
Jul 07, 2022
The Failure of the Liberal Democratic Model
Jul 01, 2022
Cross-Border Diplomacy
Jun 23, 2022
Gift or Gaffe?
Jun 16, 2022
Planning the Summit
Jun 09, 2022
The Assistant Secretary of State on the Summit of the Americas
Jun 02, 2022
Climbing the Summit
May 27, 2022
We Are Going to Win
May 19, 2022
Enchiladas and Golumpkis
May 13, 2022
Tweeting Is Not Acting
May 05, 2022
Encore: Desiree Cormier – Africa and Tijuana
Apr 28, 2022
Threats to the Foreign Service
Apr 21, 2022
Countering Genocide
Apr 14, 2022
Ukraine: The Will to Fight
Apr 07, 2022
Memories of Madeleine, "The Serpent"
Mar 31, 2022
Do Sanctions Work?
Mar 24, 2022
I Would Rather Be America
Mar 17, 2022
Energy Diplomacy and the War in Ukraine
Mar 10, 2022
Where Is Latin America on Putin's Aggression?
Mar 03, 2022
There Is Always Hope
Feb 24, 2022
Black History as Experienced by Michael Peay
Feb 17, 2022
Ukraine - What's Putin's Game?
Feb 10, 2022
Spider Schneider
Feb 03, 2022
Want to Be a US Ambassador? Pay Up.
Jan 27, 2022
Kazakhstan: Popular Uprising or Palace Intrigue?
Jan 20, 2022
He's Not Miss Universe, but He'll Have to Do
Jan 13, 2022
Democracy Threatened
Jan 06, 2022
In Vodka Veritas, with Dick Hoagland
Dec 30, 2021
Holiday Encore - Unity, Love, Positivity
Dec 23, 2021
Our Time to Serve
Dec 16, 2021
Haiti - What Went Wrong?
Dec 09, 2021
A Badge of Honor?
Dec 02, 2021
Annual AmDip Thanksgiving Special
Nov 24, 2021
One of the Most Pointless Wars in History
Nov 18, 2021
From the Middle East to Rural America
Nov 11, 2021
Powell's Inimitable Leadership
Nov 04, 2021
Love Letter to Colin Powell
Oct 28, 2021
Nothing is Impossible, with Ted Osius
Oct 21, 2021
From Soaking Wet to Very Big Business
Oct 14, 2021
Toobah is Free!
Oct 12, 2021
Nicaragua, Nicaragüita
Oct 07, 2021
The Summer of the Cockroaches
Oct 01, 2021
9/11, Personal Inventory and a New Career
Sep 23, 2021
The Last Officer at Abbey Gate
Sep 16, 2021
The Future of American Diplomacy
Sep 09, 2021
Toobah Evacuation Update
Sep 07, 2021
These Are Not My Beautiful Feet
Sep 03, 2021
This Didn't Have to Happen
Aug 30, 2021
And What of Our Friend Toobah?
Aug 27, 2021
Whaddaya Do?
Aug 20, 2021
Encore: The Ugly American
Aug 12, 2021
Encore: Bahrain, So Small, So Important
Aug 05, 2021
They Will Cut Our Heads, Of Course!
Jul 29, 2021
Don't Let Us Be Killed
Jul 23, 2021
Encore: Send Lawyers, Guns and Money
Jul 15, 2021
Encore: We’ll Always Have Paris
Jul 10, 2021
Encore: Who Lost China?
Jun 30, 2021
Encore: Stay Home and Pour the Tea
Jun 24, 2021
Dull, Duller, Dulles
Jun 16, 2021
Encore: Pedro Pan and the Guerrillas
Jun 12, 2021
The Sky is Green!
Jun 04, 2021
Scarcity Colors Everything
May 28, 2021
A Bag of Doritos: It's Happening
May 20, 2021
Biden Gets an Incomplete (So Far)
May 13, 2021
The Mother of All Conspiracy Theories
May 06, 2021
Her Fathers' Death: It Just Doesn't Add Up
Apr 29, 2021
A JFK Assassination Tipster's Demise
Apr 22, 2021
Diversity Across the Generations at State
Apr 15, 2021
Is 757 Years Enough?
Apr 08, 2021
Smuggling Cubans
Mar 31, 2021
Combatting Anti-Blackness as a Diplomat of Color
Mar 26, 2021
Onboarding Online
Mar 18, 2021
F.W. de Klerk, Winnie Mandela and Cyril Ramaposa
Mar 11, 2021
Trifecta
Mar 04, 2021
Bahrain, So Small, So Important
Feb 25, 2021
The Shining City on the Hill?
Feb 18, 2021
The Secret Dinners
Feb 12, 2021
The Ugly American
Feb 04, 2021
Bonus Repost: That Day I Had to Run
Feb 01, 2021
December 17, 2010
Jan 27, 2021
Bouns Repost - A Few Choice Words
Jan 25, 2021
The Nile Just Keeps Flowing
Jan 21, 2021
The Merchant of Death
Jan 14, 2021
The Dirty Money Tracker
Jan 07, 2021
Hiatus Post - More with Gina Winstanley
Dec 31, 2020
Hiatus post: Gina Winstanley's Adventures in the Middle East
Dec 26, 2020
Hiatus Post - Pete Goes Native
Dec 17, 2020
Hiatus Repost - Cowboys and Indian at the Embassy
Dec 10, 2020
Hiatus Post - Foreign Service Test? Quiz Show? You Decide.
Dec 03, 2020
AmDip Thanksgiving Special!
Nov 25, 2020
Hiatus Post - Bill Burns: The Back Channel
Nov 18, 2020
Hiatus Post - The Man of My Dreams
Nov 06, 2020
That Day I Had to Run
Oct 29, 2020
A Few Choice Words
Oct 22, 2020
Bananas Was His Business
Oct 15, 2020
Malfeasances Aside...
Oct 07, 2020
My Job is to Keep You out of Jail
Sep 30, 2020
The World's Blindest Power?
Sep 23, 2020
Ukraine is Not Dead Yet
Sep 17, 2020
Second Annual AmDip Greatest Hits!
Sep 10, 2020
Colombia: Bloodless Theater in the Jungle
Sep 03, 2020
A Grandfather's Love and Legacy
Aug 27, 2020
Bonus Episode - The Lovely Miriam Gutierrez
Aug 25, 2020
The Day Beirut Exploded
Aug 21, 2020
TikTok: Dance Party or Trojan Horse?
Aug 13, 2020
Quiz: What Do Bernie and Trump Agree on?
Aug 05, 2020
A Black Diplomat? You're Lying.
Jul 30, 2020
This Ain't the Manhattan Project
Jul 23, 2020
Who Stole My Axe?
Jul 16, 2020
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend?
Jul 09, 2020
The First Woman Ambassador to Thailand
Jul 03, 2020
The Man of My Dreams
Jun 25, 2020
Hong Kong: The Chinese are Coming!
Jun 18, 2020
The State Department Spokesperson's Dilemmas
Jun 11, 2020
The Scorpion and the Frog - Egypt's Morsi
Jun 04, 2020
I'm an Inspector General and I'm Here to Help
May 28, 2020
Saving Lives: Collaborate or Vilify?
May 21, 2020
"Get Me Out of Here!"
May 14, 2020
Stay Home and Pour the Tea
May 07, 2020
When You Shouldn't Follow the Rules (Repost)
Apr 29, 2020
Repatriating Americans During COVID
Apr 23, 2020
Unity, Love, Positivity
Apr 16, 2020
School Scandal in Jakarta
Apr 09, 2020
AmDip Carries On
Apr 07, 2020
Glamping With the Masters, and with Vicki, Again
Apr 02, 2020
Vicki Huddleston is Back as Well
Apr 01, 2020
The Great Bill Burns is Back
Mar 25, 2020
Ralph Bunche, Accidental Diplomat
Mar 18, 2020
Tales from the Vault
Mar 12, 2020
We Are In!
Mar 04, 2020
Democracy Wins!
Feb 28, 2020
A Student of Leadership
Feb 21, 2020
All Peace is Local
Feb 19, 2020
Could This Happen to Me?
Feb 14, 2020
What is Nation-Building?
Feb 12, 2020
Foreign Service Test? Quiz Show? You Decide.
Feb 06, 2020
Pedro Pan and the Guerrillas
Jan 28, 2020
Who Lost China?
Jan 23, 2020
Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar
Jan 15, 2020
Sidebar - Parsing Iran Brinksmanship
Jan 14, 2020
Perils of the Press, in Mexico-US Relations
Jan 08, 2020
War and Peace in Trade
Jan 01, 2020
A Life of Significance
Dec 26, 2019
Immunity, Reciprocity, Espionage
Dec 18, 2019
Diplomatic Immunity?
Dec 12, 2019
When Ambassadorships Are for Sale
Dec 05, 2019
Thanksgiving with AmDip!
Nov 27, 2019
When ISIS Comes Home
Nov 21, 2019
Remember the Last Impeachment?
Nov 14, 2019
Estonia's Success Story
Nov 07, 2019
Diplomacy After the Bombs Have Fallen
Oct 30, 2019
Heroes of US Diplomacy - Lizzie Slater
Oct 24, 2019
Corruption vs. the Ambassador
Oct 17, 2019
Sequoia is a She
Oct 10, 2019
Send Lawyers, Guns and Money
Oct 01, 2019
Love in the Time of Tweet Diplomacy
Sep 25, 2019
Jim Jones (Not the One You're Thinking Of)
Sep 19, 2019
We'll Always Have Paris
Sep 12, 2019
Desiree, Encore!
Sep 04, 2019
Rock On, AmDip!
Aug 29, 2019
I'm Goin' to Kathmandu
Aug 21, 2019
Freedom for Ethiopian Jews
Aug 12, 2019
Think About a Career in Public Service
Aug 05, 2019
Bill Burns - The Back Channel
Aug 01, 2019
Glamping with the Masters of the Desert
Jul 23, 2019
Mali - Most Dangerous Peacekeeping Mission on Earth
Jul 18, 2019
Sandinismo 2.0
Jul 11, 2019
Liberation Day, Nicaragua!
Jul 03, 2019
Ajani Husbands, Dreadlock Diplomat
Jun 27, 2019
AIDS - Health Diplomacy
Jun 21, 2019
12 Days in the Hotseat
Jun 13, 2019
Slip Out the Back, Jack
Jun 06, 2019
Money, Money, Money
May 30, 2019
Bromance? Trump and Brazil's Bolsonaro
May 23, 2019
What, More Feeley and Brownfield?
May 16, 2019
Foreign Service Day
May 09, 2019
Here I Am, Now What?
May 02, 2019
Fulanita's Progress, An Immigration Tale
Apr 25, 2019
Plastics
Apr 18, 2019
Quick Bonus ep! Future of the Foreign Service
Apr 16, 2019
The Diplomat Environmentalist
Apr 11, 2019
Ever Hear of Ebenezer Bassett?
Apr 04, 2019
Immigration Made Simple
Mar 27, 2019
And How Long Will You Be Staying?
Mar 21, 2019
Remember Ron Brown?
Mar 15, 2019
Wonderful, Weird, Incredibly Dangerous Naples
Mar 07, 2019
Baby's Got the Bends
Feb 27, 2019
Only the Paranoid Survive
Feb 20, 2019
Jeff DeLaurentis Knows a Lot About Cuba
Feb 14, 2019
Chavez Gives Pete Four Pinocchios
Feb 07, 2019
Anwar Awlaki and Abrar
Feb 02, 2019
Hysteria or Reality? China in Panama
Jan 24, 2019
Counterterrorism - The Diplomat's Perspective
Jan 17, 2019
More Fun Facts about Trade
Jan 10, 2019
Questions, Questions...
Jan 03, 2019
College Students Visit State
Dec 27, 2018
A Public Servant in the Private Sector
Dec 20, 2018
When You Shouldn't Follow the Rules
Dec 14, 2018
Secretary of State James Baker Reflects on Bush and Our Times
Dec 06, 2018
The Dictator Hit Parade
Nov 29, 2018
President vs. Strongman: No Peace in Angola
Nov 23, 2018
Bonus Chat - Is It Happening Here?
Nov 21, 2018
The Cult of Jim Jones - Murder-Suicide in Guyana
Nov 15, 2018
How Did Erdogan Do It? - Is it Happening Here?
Nov 08, 2018
Turkey's Erdogan - Is It Happening Here?
Nov 02, 2018
Stove-piped to Death?
Oct 25, 2018
Take Care of Your People: Bombing in Nairobi, 1998
Oct 18, 2018
Expeditionary Diplomacy is What, Exactly?
Oct 14, 2018
Can We Make a Diplomat of Laura? Laura in the Hot Seat
Oct 04, 2018
Who Knew? Diplomatic Training, Revealed
Sep 27, 2018
Bouazizi, Arab Spring, SiriusXM and Is It Happening Here?
Sep 20, 2018
Tamil Genocide - History Repeats Itself?
Sep 18, 2018
Tamil Tigers - The Memory Still Haunts Sri Lanka
Sep 13, 2018
Russia - Is It Happening Here? Putin Consolidates Power
Sep 08, 2018
Russia - Is It Happening Here? "He Must Be Like Putin"
Aug 30, 2018
Pete Goes Native - Second Part of Pete's Visit with the Indians
Aug 23, 2018
Cowboys and Indian at the Embassy
Aug 16, 2018
Soybean Laura Goes to Washington
Aug 09, 2018
Venezuela: Is it Happening Here? Chavez Takes Control
Aug 03, 2018
Venezuela: Is It Happening Here?
Jul 27, 2018
Is It Happening Here?
Jul 19, 2018
I've Been Kicked Out of Better Countries Than This
Jul 12, 2018
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Jul 05, 2018
Send Lawyers, Guns and Money
Jun 28, 2018
Who Says America Never Wins Anymore?
Jun 21, 2018
Tijuana: What Could Go Wrong?
Jun 14, 2018
Go With God, Children!
Jun 07, 2018
Little Elian Gonzalez
Jun 01, 2018
Fidel's Eyes Are Everywhere, and Cuba's Special Period
May 25, 2018
Fidel and Our Woman in Havana
May 18, 2018
John Feeley & the FARC: Colombia's Guerilla Revolutionaries
May 11, 2018
Iran Deal - Wendy Sherman Negotiates
May 09, 2018
John Feeley - Panama Papers
May 04, 2018
Andrew Albertson - Three Explosions in Afghanistan
Apr 27, 2018
Gina Winstanley, Oman and Saudi Arabia
Apr 20, 2018
Jonathan Addleton - The Dust of Kandahar
Apr 13, 2018
Ajani Husbands - Islamabad and Port Au Prince
Apr 06, 2018
Desiree Cormier - Africa and Tijuana
Mar 22, 2018
Desiree Cormier - Creole, Colored or Black?
Mar 16, 2018
Robert Blake - Sri Lanka, Terror Escalates
Mar 08, 2018
Robert Blake - Terror in Sri Lanka
Feb 28, 2018
Pete Romero - Plan Colombia, Part 2
Feb 23, 2018
Pete Romero - Plan Colombia, Part 1
Feb 15, 2018
Wendy Sherman - Iran Deal
Feb 07, 2018
Wendy Sherman - Baltimore to Pyongyang
Feb 01, 2018
Charles Ray - Golf with a Dictator
Jan 25, 2018
Charles Ray - Zimbabwe's Authoritarian
Jan 18, 2018
Charles English - Murder-Suicide in Guyana
Jan 11, 2018
Mike Senko - Grenades and Guns
Jan 04, 2018
Tom Miller - Soldiers Without Weapons
Dec 27, 2017
Tom Miller - Drugs and Thugs
Dec 21, 2017
Dennis Jett on Lori Berenson and Why He Joined the Foreign Service
Dec 13, 2017
Dennis Jett and Liberia's Civil War
Dec 06, 2017
Ron Neumann - Vietnam to Afghanistan
Nov 28, 2017
Lino Gutierrez - Part 2
Nov 22, 2017
Lino Gutierrez - Part 1
Nov 14, 2017
Tim Carney - Part 2
Nov 07, 2017
Gina Winstanley - Part 2
Oct 31, 2017
Gina Winstanley - Part 1
Oct 26, 2017
Tim Carney - Part 1
Oct 26, 2017