Amb. Melady comments on future of Haiti

Publication Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010

An article entitled "Haiti: Phase II" by IWP Senior Diplomat in Residence Thomas P. Melady was published in the National Catholic Reporter on January 20, 2010.  {read more}

Bosnia offers potential as positive example of decentralization

Publication Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009

In an editorial published in The Ambassador's Review, Dr. Thomas Melady examines the potential of decentralized rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Ambassador Melady notes the successful record of several nations which have decentralized their domestic affairs along cultural lines, notably Switzerland and the United States. His essay stresses reasons to be optimistic about the prospects of a Bosnia that remains free of violence as its Catholic, Orthodox, and Muslim populations achieve greater cultural liberty.  {read more}

US-Vatican Relations: 25th Anniversary and a New President

Publication Date: Spring 2009

The United States and Croatia: the bilateral relationship since 1991

Publication Date: May 14, 2008

The period of 1991-2008 witnessed significant development in the bilateral relations between Croatia and the United States. Is this situation due to one person or several? Did events energize this change or was it the result of a series of well conceived strategies? Before proceeding with the diagnosis, it would be appropriate to examine briefly the history of Croatia.  {read more}

Amb. Melady discusses papal visit

Publication Date: April 2, 2008

Montenegro: The democratic consultative road to independence

Publication Date: Spring 2007

Pope Benedict XVI and Islam: Reflections on the future

Publication Date: Fall 2006

Professor Thomas Melady, former US Ambassador to the Vatican, examines Pope Benedict XVI's September 12, 2006 speech at the University of Regensburg in Germany that many Muslims found unduly provocative. In this article, Ambassador Melady looks at what was said, along with the Pope's intentions and other circumstances of the speech.   {read more}

A new beginning for Albania

Publication Date: Fall 2006

Ambassador Melady writes the Ambassadors Review about the prospects for Albania under Prime Minister Sali Berisha.  {read more}

John Paul II rejected assassination inquiry 'for now'

Publication Date: April 29, 2005

In his very calm voice, Pope John Paul II told me that he did not want the United States government to make an issue of the 1981 plot to assassinate him. It was Oct. 1, 1989, in the pope’s private study after the public presentation of my credentials as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.  {read more}