It’s not every day a politician becomes a diplomat, and then after only a year decides to switch careers entirely and ...

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 ...

Lithuania's Jovita Neliupšienė, the EU ambassador to the United States, faces two crises at once: Trump's tariff threats and ...

AAM Awards Dinner attracted some 200 people, including the DC-based ambassadors of Azerbaijan, Egypt, France and Israel.

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 ...

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 ...

St. Lucia's former ambassador to the United States, Joseph Edsel Edmunds, displays his acrylic paintings at Art Impact USA’s first annual International 2016 Art Exhibition in Washington DC. Edmunds, ...

Ivonne A-Baki, Ecuador's ambassador to the United States, participates in a Nov. 6 webinar moderated by Susan Sloan and hosted by the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center. Ivonne A-Baki ...

Somaliland's representative in Washington, D.C., Bashir Goth, sits between the flags of Somaliland and the United States in his office in Alexandria, Va. (Washington Diplomat) On one of Bashir Goth’s ...

Palestinians evacuate wounded after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on October 12 2023. Photo: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock.com As Gaza turned into a concentration camp ...

Veronika Wand-Danielsson presents her credentials to then-President Franoçois Hollande in 2014 to become Sweden's first female ambassador to France. By 2014, Veronika Wand-Danielsson had already spent ...