The Foreign Service Journal, December 2016

52 DECEMBER 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL G ROUNDBREAKING DIPLOMACY George Shultz reflects on his tenure as Secretary of State in the Reagan administration and the process of making foreign policy and conducting diplomacy during the decade leading up to the fall of the Soviet Union. ON RUSSIA At a working session at Hofdi House during the Reykjavík Summit, October 1986. From left: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, an interpreter, USSR Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. COURTESYOFTHERONALDREAGANPRESIDENTIALLIBRARY FOCUS AN INTERVIEW WITHGEORGE SHULTZ BY JAMES E . GOODBY