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 ...

Miami native Larry Luxner, a veteran journalist and photographer, has reported from more than 100 countries in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia for a variety of news ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Army veteran and legionnaire Wes Lam presented the medallion to the ambassador at an event at the French diplomat’s residence in Washington last year for Sciences Po alumni. Lam attended Sciences ...

Europe’s newest country, Kosovo, is also still one of its poorest. Yet nearly 15 years after declaring independence, this landlocked little republic in the Balkans is making slow but steady progress.

If you are looking for an example of a contemporary global statesman, Gareth Evans of Australia is a compelling candidate. Evans served for more than two decades in Australia’s Parliament and held ...

A few days ago, the Biden administration made a little-noticed but highly significant change. And that change can have a profound and wonderful effect on global education, something that is important ...

From left: Cynthia Miller-Idriss, director of American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL); Michael Brenner, director of AU’s Center for Israel Studies; and Chris ...

From left: Igor Volkov, 36; Sergey Kurazhev, 24; and Alexander Popov, 36, fled their native Russia after the invasion of Ukraine a year ago. All three software developers now live in Yerevan, where ...

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 ...

Bashir Goth, the ‘ambassador’ for Somaliland in Washington, D.C., points to the unrecognized country on a map in his office. Somaliland lies across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen, near the entrance to ...