A handful of World War II veterans were guests of honor at two events in Washington, D.C., in May to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the end of the war in Europe 11 months ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Shaikh Abdulla bin Rashid Al Khalifa, Bahrain's envoy to the United States, is the winner of NUSACC's 2022 "Ambassador of the Year" award. (Photo by The Washington Diplomat) At only 290 square miles, ...

Peace Corps volunteer Teena Curry rides a rickshaw in Madagascar in August 2013. Over the years, whenever I’ve spoken to high-level officials who had been in the Peace Corps — whether senators who ...

Let’s face it: Virtual galas just aren’t the same thing as the real deal. But they’ve become clever workarounds as everyone adjusts to our new pandemic “normal.” Of course, it helps if you have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...