Cricket bats, hockey pucks, and Dennis Rodman’s neon hair have something in common. They’ve been used as geopolitical tools when normal diplomacy fails. Athletes often make the real breakthroughs, ...

Diplomacy is about avoiding crises as much as solving them. Once a crisis is here, there is no choice but to deal with it in real time. A better way would have us foresee problems further in advance, ...

That papal diplomacy under Pope Francis has two speeds became evident once more when news broke in Rome of the arrival of the Bishop Joseph Shen Bin of Shanghai. The bishop is in town to participate ...

More than 15 years ago, some teachers from Azerbaijan visited San Diego thanks to a U.S. State Department program. One of them stayed in our Switzer Highland neighborhood east of Balboa Park, and, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Leading by example plays a key role in the State Department’s diplomatic posture for critical technologies, particularly as the race to ...

Today’s escalating international conflicts are a déjà vu struggle over values and ideas that dominated the Cold War. In times like these, even the most powerful country can run out of patience with ...

BEIJING, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China will soon unveil its major diplomatic events after the conclusion of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) by welcoming several ...

India continues to cope with the devastating effects of its second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken the lives of thousands of people – the exact numbers remain uncertain. The unfolding ...

Cuba's pledge to deploy a 165-strong army of doctors and nurses to help fight the Ebola outbreak is the latest example of the Communist country's decades-old tradition of "medical diplomacy." Since ...

Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Haitham Al Ghais said that the framework of cooperation developed under OPEC+ was unique ST. PETERSBURG, June 19. /TASS/. The ...