Robert Rackmales

Robert “Bob” Rackmales (born 1937, Baltimore, Maryland) was the American Chargé d'Affaires ad interim in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from May 1992 until July 1993[1] and has been teaching at Senior College for a decade.[2][3]

Rackmales c. 1993

Rackmales graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1958. Rackmales was a Fulbright Scholar in Mainz before attending Harvard for a year. His paternal grandfather's nephew is the actor Kirk Douglas.[4]

The U.S. shared normalized relations with Yugoslavia until 1992 when Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia all seceded. The republics of Serbia and Montenegro declared a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) in April 1992. On May 21, 1992, the U.S. announced that it would not recognize the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) as the successor state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), as Serbia and Montenegro claimed. The U.S. Ambassador was recalled from Belgrade, but the mission continued with a staff under the authority of a Chargé d’Affaires ad interim. ... The republics of Serbia and Montenegro declared a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) in April 1992. On May 21, 1992, the U.S. announced that it would not recognize the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a successor state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. U.S. Ambassador Warren Zimmerman was recalled from Belgrade, but the mission continued with a staff under the authority of a Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.[5]

Publications
  • “GRACE UNDER PRESSURE:” JOHN PATON DAVIES Foreign Service Journal July/August 2008, page 46.

References
  1. "Robert Rackmales (1937–)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  2. "Bob Rackmales". Senior College at Belfast. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  3. Jewitt, Catherine P. (January 12, 2019). "UPDATED:Rackmales to teach Coastal Senior College classes". Boothbay Register. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  4. "ROBERT RACKMALES" (PDF). The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  5. "A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, since 1776: Serbia". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 20 February 2020.


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