Diplomatic Oral Histories as Text Data

Author: Calvin Thrall

Data description: Interview-segment level data from nearly 1,500 oral history interviews with retired diplomats; contains metadata including country, year of posting, year of interview, as well as diplomat demographics (when available).

Data source(s): Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.

Data publicly available? Yes: see dataverse.

Suggested citation: Thrall, Calvin. 2025. Informational Lobbying and Commerial Diplomacy. American Journal of Political Science 69(3): 1147-1162.

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