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{{Short description|American author and diplomat (born 1957)}}
{{Infobox person
| birth_date = 1957
| birth_place = [[Houston, Texas]]
| nationality =
| notable_works = ''Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower''<br />[[ToposText]]<br />''Greek Urban Warriors: Resistance and Terrorism 1967-2014''
| alma_mater = [[University of California, Berkeley]]<br />[[Swarthmore College]]
| occupation = Diplomat<br />Author<br />Lecturer
| website =
| footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |last=Kiesling |first=John Brady |title=Personal Information |work=
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'''John Brady Kiesling''' is a former [[United States|U.S.]] diplomat and the author of
==Diplomat==
An archaeologist/ancient historian by training, Kiesling entered the foreign service in 1983. He served in Israel, Morocco, Greece, Washington, and Armenia, returning to Athens as chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in 2000.▼
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▲After his resignation, Kiesling spent a year as a visiting fellow/lecturer at [[Princeton University]], and then returned to Athens. Until May 2009, he wrote a monthly column called "Diplomat in the Ruins" in the "[[Athens News]]" in [[Greece]].{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} Kiesling supported the multilateralist foreign policy of former President [[George H.W. Bush]] and the limited purposes of the 1991 Gulf War.<ref>Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom - Page 137 by Walter C. Swap, Dorothy Leonard-Barton</ref>
He was the first of three U.S. foreign service officers to resign, on February 25, 2003, to protest against the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. His letter of resignation to Secretary of State [[Colin Powell]] was posted by ''The New York Times'' and circulated widely.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kiesling |first=John Brady |date=2003-02-27 |title=U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/27WEB-TNAT.html?ex=1227502800&en=1fc74d8d62dbb786&ei=5070 |access-date=2011-01-18}}</ref>
{{cquote|Mr. Kiesling's personal crisis began in October, at a diplomatic party in Athens. He ran into an old friend and source from a stint in Athens 15 years earlier, a Communist who had spent years in Greek prisons. The pair had always sparred politically, but a warm friendship endured.
He holed up and read, but the cloud of despair wouldn't lift. Finally, in late February, when Mr. Bush made clear he wouldn't be defied, even by the U.N. Security Council, Mr. Kiesling drafted his resignation letter and quit. Suddenly, he felt "a certain lucidity, a strong, liberating feeling," he says.<ref>{{cite web |last=Waldman |first=Peter |date=April 1, 2003 |title=After Resigning to Protest War, A Diplomat Turns Peace Envoy |publisher=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB104906398323807000 |
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After his resignation, he spent a year as a visiting fellow/lecturer at [[Princeton University]], and then returned to Athens. Until May 2009, he wrote a monthly column called "Diplomat in the Ruins" in the ''[[Athens News]]'' in [[Greece]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kiesling |first1=John Brady |title=Diplomat In the Ruins |url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B0UV9YA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 |access-date=2019-12-11}}</ref>
*''Rediscovering Armenia: An Archaeological/Touristic Gazetteer and Map Set for the Historical Monuments of Armenia.'' Yerevan: Tigran Mets, 2001. {{ISBN|99930-52-28-0}}. ({{cite web |title=PDF version |url=http://www.usa.am/armenia.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2006-04-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430153404/http://www.usa.am/armenia.pdf |archivedate=2006-04-30}}) 2nd ed. Matit, 2005. {{ISBN|99941-0-121-8}}.▼
Kiesling wrote ''Rediscovering Armenia'' (2003), an open-access guide to Armenia; ''Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower'' (Potomac Books, 2006); and ''Greek Urban Warriors: Resistance and Terrorism 1967-2014'' (Lycabettus Press 2014). The latter is a "meticulous" history of [[Revolutionary Organization 17 November]], the Greek terrorist group active from 1975 until 2002.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Papadogiannis |first1=Nikolaos |title=Rev. of Greek Urban Warriors |journal=[[Journal of Modern Greek Studies]] |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=421–423 |date=2016-09-28 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/631689 |language=en |doi=10.1353/mgs.2016.0040 |s2cid=151730041 |issn=1086-3265 |via=[[Project MUSE]] |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He and the [[Plaka]] neighborhood of Athens are described in pages 38–46 of Eric Weiner's ''The Geography of Genius''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Weiner |first1=Eric |title=The Geography of Genius |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=2016 |pages=38–46}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Kiesling lives in Athens, Greece, and "his happiest moments…are spent tramping over remote, thorn-covered hillsides or as an archaeological volunteer (Ancient Corinth 1980, Ancient Nemea 1981, Vorotan Armenia 2007, Aphrodisias 1982, Zagora 2014, Methone 2015). His current interests include ancient Greek religion and Greek topography."<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2019-09-02|title=ToposText|url=https://topostext.org/who-we-are|website=topostext.org}}</ref>
Kiesling is the father of the novelist and critic [[Lydia Kiesling]].<ref>Lydia Kiesling, {{cite web |title=Throwing Away the Most Beautiful Dress I Ever Owned |date=12 April 2016 |url=https://www.thecut.com/2016/04/dress-that-made-me-believe-i-belonged.html |publisher=[[New York (magazine)|The Cut]] |access-date=2018-11-14 }}</ref><ref>Lydia Kiesling, ''The Golden State'', FSG, New York, 2018, p. 292</ref>
==Publications==
▲*''Rediscovering Armenia: An Archaeological/Touristic Gazetteer and Map Set for the Historical Monuments of Armenia.'' Yerevan: Tigran Mets, 2001. {{ISBN|99930-52-28-0}}. ({{cite
*''Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower.'' Washington, DC: Potomac, 2006. {{ISBN|1-59797-017-4}}.
*''Greek Urban Warriors: Resistance and Terrorism
==References==
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== Further reading ==
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* {{Cite news |last1=Sherman |first1=Scott |title=Brady Kiesling's Tale |work=[[The Nation]] |date=2006-12-07 |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/brady-kieslings-tale/ |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378 |df=mdy-all }}
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