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 ...

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, ...

Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid inaugurates his country's new DC embassy on June 15, as Ambassador Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed and other dignitaries look on. (Photo courtesy of Embassy of Maldives ...

Six elderly World War II veterans were among the guests of honor at a celebration at the French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C., of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. (Embassy of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors enter the Japanese Embassy during the Around the World Embassy Tour, May 4, 2024. Visitors stamped souvenir passports as they walked around Washington, D.C., during Passport DC’s “Around the ...

An election worker helps an Uzbek woman cast her vote at a local precinct in Tashkent. (Photo by Victor Shiblie) TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — On Oct. 24, voters in Uzbekistan overwhelmingly re-elected ...

A boy carries water in the Yemeni city of Aden last April. Cholera is among several diseases threatening the lives of millions of children in Yemen, where a war ...