John Shaw is a contributing writer for the Diplomat and is the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is one of the most skilled and ...

Miami native Larry Luxner, a veteran journalist and photographer, has reported from more than 100 countries in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia for a variety of news ...

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson shakes hands with Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon at Villa Somalia in 2013. (AMISOM Public Information / Flickr) Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is ...

Students from five continents gather in San Francisco earlier this year for the convocation of Minerva University, where students rotate among four continents in four years. (Photo by Martin Klimek) I ...

Many in the United States look beyond their borders and see a dangerous world with raging wars, surging violence and deepening instability. But a new report by the Eurasia Group, a leading political ...

At left: Guatemala, Czech Republic, Cambodia, Zaire, Australia (Queensland), Albania, Bosnia, Zambia, Algeria. At right: David Mack, former US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, holds up the ...

Permanent Observer Riyad Mansour of State of Palestine attends Security Council meeting on situation in Rafah at UN Headquarters in New York on May 20, 2024. Photo: Shutterstock, Lev Radin As the ...

When fellow diplomats say Miloslav Stašek is one of the strongest ambassadors in town, they mean it literally. The Czech Republic’s envoy in Washington—a 229-pound, 5-foot-8 bodybuilder who’s been ...

Somaliland's representative in Washington, D.C., Bashir Goth, sits between the flags of Somaliland and the United States in his office in Alexandria, Va. (Washington Diplomat) On one of Bashir Goth’s ...

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a think tank funded by the federal government, focuses on conflict resolution in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and other global hotspots. (Photo by Larry ...

Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, is leaving at the end of 2021. (Photo by Francisco Arreaga) After 28 years at the Inter-American Dialogue and 12 years as its president, ...

Mosaic glass tiles, dated 100 B.C.E. to 100 C.E. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution) Tucked in a corridor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, a small and exquisitely arranged display ...