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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When fellow diplomats say Miloslav Stašek is one of the strongest ambassadors in town, they mean it literally. The Czech Republic’s envoy in Washington—a 229-pound, 5-foot-8 bodybuilder who’s been ...

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 ...

The Washington Diplomat hosted its annual “Media Bash” on April 28 at the Embassy of Italy. The Washington Diplomat rolled out the red carpet for its fourth annual Media Bash on April 28—one of many ...

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 ...