David D. Newsom

David Dunlop Newsom ( born January 6, 1918 in Richmond, California, † March 30, 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American diplomat who is the third highest post held as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States.

Life

After schooling Newsom studied English at the University of California at Berkeley and received there in 1938 a Bachelor of Arts ( AB English). A subsequent post-graduate studies in journalism at Columbia University he graduated in 1940 with a Master of Science ( MS Journalism ) from. After he had served his military service in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War 1942-1946, he joined after attending the American Academy of Diplomacy in the diplomatic service and worked 1947-1950 as Vice Consul in Karachi. After a subsequent use as a Vice Consul in Oslo, he was 1951-1955 consul in Baghdad and at the same time from 1953 to 1955 secretary for public affairs of the newly created U.S. Information Agency.

After his return to the United States from 1955 to 1959 he was officer responsible for matters of the Arabian Peninsula in the State Department and by a further use in the State Department from October 1965 to June 1969 as the successor of E. Allan Lightner, Jr. Ambassador to Libya. He then returned to the State Department and was there. Between July 1969 and January 1974 Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs In February 1974, he was first successor of Francis Joseph Galbraith as ambassador to Indonesia and then in November 1977 by William H. Sullivan as ambassador to the Philippines.

Last Newsom held from April 1978 to February 1981 as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs the third-highest post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States. In this capacity he played a key role in the negotiations to end the hostage crisis in Tehran.

After his retirement from the diplomatic service Newsom was, which was very active in the Council on Foreign Relations, Assistant Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Most recently, he was from 1991 to 1998 Professor of International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of Virginia and at the same time director of the Institute for the study of diplomacy.

Publications

Newsom was also a columnist for the daily newspaper The Christian Science Monitor, and has also published several books on foreign policy issues. His most important books include:

• The Soviet Brigade in Cuba: A Study in Political Diplomacy (1987 )
• Diplomacy and the American Democracy ( 1988)
• The Public Dimension of Foreign Policy (1996 )
• The Imperial Mantle: The United States, Decolonization, and the Third ( 2001)