Dr. Diane Kunz is the Executive Director of the Center for Adoption Policy. She has also taught diplomatic history at Yale, Columbia, and Duke. Prior to her diplomatic history work, Dr. Kunz was a corporate lawyer, working at White & Case and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. She is the author of numerous books including Butter and Guns: The Economic Diplomacy of the Cold War and a forthcoming work on the diplomatic, economic, and social history of US international adoption. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Economic Diplomacy

The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis

The Battle for Britain's Gold Standard in 1931

Center for Adoption Policy

Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography

The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building