Diplomacy

The Commission to Reform and Modernize the State Department has a historical opportunity to build something better. Here are four questions it needs to consider.

An expert assessment of where the lines of diplomacy will be drawn.

Just Security Senior Fellow Brianna Rosen shares key takeaways from the 2024 REAIM Summit and strategic risks of AI in the military domain.

The democratic world must side with pro-democracy, peace, and anti-corruption movements in Africa and act against corrupt networks.

The upcoming REAIM Summit on responsible AI in the military domain is a valuable multistakeholder forum that can catalyze diplomatic and normative processes.

Lifting sanctions against mining tycoon Dan Gertler for “extensive public corruption” in the Democratic Republic of Congo would fail the victims of his schemes and undermine…

Explore Just Security's coverage of the last three years of Taliban control in Afghanistan.

Unfocused efforts to break the logjam over human rights and diplomatic recognition raise questions about how to move forward.

Is it lawful for a State to subject a foreign diplomatic pouch to X-raying or scanning to ensure that it is not used for illicit purposes?

Unless parties are willing to come to the table, there is no pathway from war toward restoring civilian rule and a democratic transition.

Three fallacies have dominated -- and damaged-- US diplomacy in the current war and the lead-up to it.

Internal repression -- more than 1,400 political prisoners -- extends outward, too, as dictator Alexander Lukashenka's threatens US and EU security with hybrid ops and nuclear…