About ADST

The Association accomplishes its objectives by:

• Creating the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection. Growing by some 80 histories per year, the collection conveys the experiences, analyses, knowledge, and wisdom of both career and noncareer foreign affairs practitioners. Users include business, the media, academe, and government. Some 900 oral histories are already accessible to the public on CD-ROM, and approximately 500 more are in various stages of completion.

• Producing a book series on diplomats and diplomacy, and providing advice on publishing to serving and former foreign affairs personnel. Sixteen books have been published in the series with four more forthcoming in 2002. There are six other related titles available.

• Supporting Foreign Service Institute training programs as well as seminars and policy conferences that bring together academics, the private sector, and senior government officials in discussions of critical foreign relations issues.

• Recognizing excellence in foreign language training through annual awards to Foreign Service Institute instructors.

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• Developing and presenting exhibits that illuminate the history of American diplomacy and displaying diplomatic artifacts.

• Sponsoring distinguished ADST Senior Fellows to pursue special projects on diplomacy.

• Maintaining a research center.