Bringing Europe and China to Africa and Granola Bars to Jail – originally posted in March 2018. Enjoy!
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Overseas and at home, Foreign Service officers face danger to themselves and their careers, from Benghazi to McCarthyism to the Trump presidency. John Naland and Harry Kopp discuss these risks and why we take them in their book Career Diplomacy: Lfe...
War crimes and genocide, from the Holocaust of World War II to Ukraine today, and many other places on earth. Moved by his experience of the civil rights movement as a youth in the South, Ed O’Donnel devoted his life to preventing the...
No one guessed Ukraine could succeed in combatting Putin. How has the country done it? What has Putin got wrong? General Ben Freakley is back with insights on the will to fight, military strategy, and values-based leadership. Check out this...
The world has lost a great stateswoman; Pete has lost a mentor. Reviled by autocrats, loved by Cuban Americans, Madeleine Albright is mourned by lovers of democracy worldwide.
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The Ukraine war – a threat or an opportunity, or both? It’s too ealry to tell, says congressional candidate and USAID veteran Dave Harden, but in a rise of great power competition – Russia, China and the US – I would...
Gas and Oil, Russia, Europe, the US, Azerbaijan, China and the war in Ukraine. Rich Kauzlerich, expert on energy diplomacy, explains that sanctions work, but that this is certainly no time for a victory lap.
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Most of the world is united in its condemnation of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, with the conspicuous absence of comment from Latin America. Why? Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas, unpacks. Check out...
What better way to launch a depressive episode than to leave a beloved job as US Ambassador to Panama, at the pinacle of one’s career, all because one cannot in good conscience act as the personal representative of a particular US President...