September 24, 1999

Why Diplomatic Historians May Be the Victims of American Triumphalism

By JEFF SHARLET

They questioned authority and pioneered the international approach popular in academe; now they find themselves ignored and misunderstood

Diplomatic history used to be about Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, and, in the words of a scholar in the field, "what one clerk said to another."

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