Diplomacy

The US government requires more empirical evidence for aid to help improve livelihoods abroad than for financing weapons used to destroy them.

Amid COVID19 crisis, Special Envoy Richard Grenell's pressure on Kosovo precipitates collapse of popular and promising reformist government.

Eleven baseline understandings are likely to be key in designing the most effective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in impoverished, conflict-affected regions.

Russia made possible much of the slaughter in Syria and itself continues to commit a substantial share of the appalling crimes that take place there. One step could be taken now…

The recent passing of F. Allen “Tex” Harris, a retired diplomat who repeatedly risked his career and life to serve on the “front lines” of President Jimmy Carter’s human…

President Trump's retaliation against principled dissenters and his jettisoning of longstanding U.S. policy on landmines converge in a look back to see how another administration…

Watching the Guantanamo proceedings from behind the courtroom's safety glass brings to mind a different prison, halfway around the world, in Egypt.

Genuinely sustainable progress in the Western Balkans turns on jobs, equitably distributed revenue, and the physical security that undergirds effective governance.

I handled State Dept’s public messaging after we killed bin Laden. I know the risks.

Civilian prosecution in U.S. courts remains by far the best option for reliably bringing the two ISIL detainees in U.S. custody to justice. The DoJ should look closely at whether…

The symbolism of a foreign leader meeting with the US president in the White House sends an unmistakable signal worldwide, especially in this case to Russia.

The Trump administration has reinterpreted a 2008 agreement with Vietnam in multiple ways to expand the categories of refugees it can deport. The effort appears to have affected…