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 ...

It’s not every day a politician becomes a diplomat, and then after only a year decides to switch careers entirely and ...

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 ...

The Cayman Islands, a tiny British overseas territory located 450 miles due south of Miami, boasts the world’s largest turtle farm, along with some of the best scuba diving on the planet. But what ...

Larry Luxner, news editor of The Washington Diplomat, interviews former Albanian President Sali Berisha on Sept. 12 at Democratic Party headquarters in Tirana. (Photo by Floriana Garo) TIRANA, Albania ...

Gustavo Petro, 62, is a former M-19 guerrillero who in 1985 was captured and tortured by the army, served 18 months in prison, eventually went into politics and in 2022 won election as the 34th ...

Retired US diplomat Herman Cohen in his Washington DC office. (Photo by The Washington Diplomat) Years ago, Herman Jay “Hank” Cohen, then-assistant US secretary of state for African affairs, was ...

Ivonne A-Baki, Ecuador's ambassador to the United States, participates in a Nov. 6 webinar moderated by Susan Sloan and hosted by the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center. Ivonne A-Baki ...

EU Ambassador Jovita Neliupšienė hosts the Transatlantic Bridge Awards on May 7. When Lithuania’s Jovita Neliupšienė was born in 1980, in the city of Panevėžys, her country was still part of the ...

St. Lucia's former ambassador to the United States, Joseph Edsel Edmunds, displays his acrylic paintings at Art Impact USA’s first annual International 2016 Art Exhibition in Washington DC. Edmunds, ...

Palestinians evacuate wounded after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on October 12 2023. Photo: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock.com As Gaza turned into a concentration camp ...

Veronika Wand-Danielsson presents her credentials to then-President Franoçois Hollande in 2014 to become Sweden's first female ambassador to France. By 2014, Veronika Wand-Danielsson had already spent ...