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 ...

Lithuania’s Jovita Neliupšienė, the EU ambassador to the United States, faces two crises at once: Trump’s tariff threats and Russia’s war on Ukraine. Honduran Ambassador Javier Efraín Bú Soto talks to ...

Lithuania’s Jovita Neliupšienė, the EU ambassador to the United States, faces two crises at once: Trump’s tariff threats and Russia’s war on Ukraine. the new European Union Ambassador to the United ...

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

Hammad Hammad, special assistant to the US deputy secretary of state, speaks Nov. 30 at a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright Program. (Photos courtesy of IIE) A veritable who’s who ...

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 ...

Hip hop ambassadors from 22 countries visited Washington, D.C., New York, including the Bronx, where hip hop was born, and North Carolina during the two weeks they spent in the United States on J-1 ...

U.K. Ambassador Dame Karen Pierce, 2nd from left, and artist Lisa Marie Thalhammer, center, cut the ribbon to inaugurate the mural sponsored by the U.K. embassy and painted by Thalhammer on the Little ...

Guyana has long been an anomaly. South America’s only English-speaking republic, it’s also the continent’s emptiest country—with only 800,000 people inhabiting an area the size of England. But now, as ...

Georgian soldier patrols the so-called border marking Russia’s occupation of South Ossetia. (Photo by Larry Luxner) The Ukraine war has taught us that failure to thwart aggressive autocratic regimes ...

Esme Chombo has been Malawi's ambassador to the United States since Jan. 1, 2022. (Photo by The Washington Diplomat) If Americans have heard of Malawi at all, it’s likely because singer and actress ...

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 ...