Doug Macdonald, Class of 1966, authored the book Adventures in Chaos: American Intervention for Reform in the Third World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992). Doug reports it is virtually out of print, but I did check with Amazon.com and it is available if you are willing to wait for a copy.

The title "Adventures in Chaos" is a quote from a senator when they were discussing what to do about the Chinese civil war in 1948. He said trying to figure out what our policy should be and called the whole situation an "adventure in chaos," and I just thought it captured the kinds of chaotic situations that we often found ourselves in during the Cold War. It is used in certain classes to train our foreign service officers in the State Department. Its Amazon.com Sales Rank is: #1,387,803. Far from a best seller, but since Doug has reported how 'high' it is on the best seller list I can report to you Doug has the same sense of humor that I knew him to have in 1961.

Doug reports his last 35 years as follows... After high school I went into the Air Force for four years. I spent 38 months of that service in Asia, mostly in Japan. That is where I got my interest in international affairs. I returned in 1971 and lived at 38 Cedar Ave.(Arlington) for two years, mostly bumming around. I then went to U. Mass./Amherst on the GI Bill and lived out there for two years. I then moved back to finish at U. Mass./Boston fromn 1975-1977. In 1977 I moved to New York City to attend graduate school in political science at Columbia University. I received my M.A. in 1979, my M.Phil. in 1981, and, after teaching for a year in Georgia, I earned my Ph.D. in 1987. I lived in Manhattan for about 5 years. My doctoral dissertation won the Helen Dwight Reed Award for best dissertation in international relations in the United States from the American Political Science Association in 1986. In 1985-86 I was a John M. Olin Research Fellow in National Security Affairs at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. (While there I attended the 20th class reunion of the class of '65, the only one I have attended.) The following academic year, 1986-87, I was a research fellow at Harvard and taught at Wellesley College. In September, 1987 I got the job at Colgate and have been here ever since. In 1998, I was awarded a senior research fellowship at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway (they are the ones who give out the Nobel Peace Prize every year.)

Congratulations, Doug!

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