"Classic " Diplomacy

Diplomatija se uvek doživljavala kao elitno zanimanje i ni malo ne čudi to što veliki broj ljudi koji se bave javnim poslovima (ne samo...

Paul Widmer, Verfasser des Basiswerks "Diplomatie - Ein Handbuch", vermutet hinter Andrij Melnyks Äußerungen eher "Kalkül, als einen Ausrutscher". Das Verhalten des ukrainischen Botschafters...

In May of 1996, Lesley Stahl, of 60 Minutes, asked the future Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about the humanitarian disaster in Iraq, which...

While it is important to embrace digital diplomacy in the post pandemic period, Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah reminded the diplomatic community to...

The Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) will host the 47th edition of the ‘International Forum on Diplomatic Training (IFDT)’ this week. The forum, which will...

  Iz štampe je izašlo vredno i značajno delo ambasadora dr Duška Lopandića „Reči su senke dela – razvoj diplomatije i međunarodnih veza od XV...

HOT TOPIC Gay U.S. Diplomats Still Battle Discrimination Abroad Despite recently won rights at home, LGBTI+ members of the Foreign Service are not welcome in 70 countries. By NICHOLAS KRALEV and LOUIS SAVOIA | JULY 18, 2021 Last month, the U.S. Department of State flew the rainbow flag in front of its main building in Foggy Bottom for the first time. Photo courtesy of the Department of State. More than a decade ago, Victor (not his real name), a U.S. Foreign Service officer then in his 30s, started a tour in a Middle Eastern country. He wanted to bring along his partner, who wasn’t a U.S. citizen. Even though the U.S. government didn’t officially recognize same-sex relationships, the State Department tolerated them. The bigger problem was the host-country, which refused to grant Victor’s partner a visa. Eventually, the U.S. Embassy found a “workaround”: the only way for the couple to be together was for Victor to hire his partner as a “dome..

The memory of World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as Russia calls it—occupies a cult-like status in Russian popular and political culture. At...

The Constitution and civic participation in a democracy played an critical role in my career abroad as a public diplomacy foreign service officer for...

ARGUMENT The End of Imperial Diplomacy An Eight-Step Program for a Recovering Superpower By NICHOLAS KRALEV | OCTOBER 25, 2020 At the peak of American power and influence, President George H.W. Bush addressed the 1991 Madrid conference, where the United States brought together Israelis and Palestinians for the first time. Photo by U.S. National Archives. The United States’ soft power and diplomatic influence have been waning for years, yet American officials have pretended that they run the world as if it’s the early 1990s. If they needed glaring proof that the country that achieved the greatest military and economic might in history is now a recovering superpower, the Covid-19 pandemic has provided it in spades. Washington’s failure to lead a coordinated global response to the coronavirus — perhaps one similar to its efforts to fight the 2014 Ebola outbreak — and the disaster that has been its handling of the crisis at home have sent powerful signals to the world. The competence, ..