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

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 ...

AAM Awards Dinner attracted some 200 people, including the DC-based ambassadors of Azerbaijan, Egypt, France and Israel.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The 11th edition of Winternational Embassy Showcase was held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on Dec. 5. (Kaveh Sardari/Sardari Group,Inc.) On a cold, blustery day, the ...

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 ...