Episode 118: Priscilla Clapp

Priscilla Clapp had a 30 year career in the state department, which ended in 2002 as the top US official in Burma. She also served in top positions in South Africa in the early 1990s during the transition from Apartheid and in Japan and Moscow.

Clapp is the co-author with Mort Halperin of what I consider one of the most important books you can read about…