Philippine Ambassador José Manuel Romualdez was interviewed by Washington Diplomat news editor Larry Luxner at the latest ...

Ivonne Juez Abuchacra de Baki, a product of two countries—Ecuador and Lebanon—has made her mark as both an artist and diplomat. On Aug. 17, 1961, heads of state from throughout the hemisphere met at ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wall in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, built as a security measure in the early 2000s, is covered in graffiti calling for peace. Separation walls were also built in Northern Ireland during ...

Vladyslav, a combat lifesaver in the Ukrainian Army whose call sign is “Savage,” was completely drained after two years of constant bloodshed. “The only thing that kept me going was the hope of ...

The entryway of the Georgetown Club in Washington. Washington boasts two clubs on the 11 Most Exclusive Private Clubs in America list, created by Los Angeles-based consultancy Club Marketing. One of ...