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Coronavirus and aid: What we’re watching

The New Humanitarian A snapshot of how COVID-19 has disrupted aid efforts around the globe- There are early signs of what postponed...

Climate Change and National Security: Balancing the Costs and Benefits

Mark G. Stewart, CATO Institute If climate projections are correct, a changing climate has the potential to cause sea levels to rise,...

The Emergence of Cyber Diplomacy in an Increasingly Post-Liberal Cyberspace

Andre Barrinha & Thomas Renard, Council on Foreign Relations The power relations, values, and institutions that governed cyberspace since...

Why the Compacts of Free Association Matter to Washington

Grant Wyeth, The Diplomat With its eyes on China, the United States seeks to reaffirm its presence in the western Pacific. Last week,...

Polarized politics has infected American diplomacy

William Burns, The Atlantic Foreigners aren’t laughing at us. They pity and discount us - The style and substance of our polarized...

Erdogan says Turkey, US reached agreements on Libya

The Associated Press Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that he has reached agreements with his U.S. counterpart Donald...

North Korea cuts off all communication with South Korea

Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press North Korea said it was cutting off all communication channels with South Korea on Tuesday, a move...

Chinese Diplomats Behaving Badly

Minxin Pei, Project Syndicate At a time when China’s reputation is suffering and its relationship with the United States is in freefall,...

Regionalization of Multilateralism

One of the most interesting and surprising phenomena enhanced by the pandemic is a renewal in regional organizations’ proactivity – with...

COVID-19 pandemic to transform China-Africa relations

Chiponda Chimbelu, DW The coronavirus outbreak has revealed cracks in the China-Africa dynamic. Gone are the days of Chinese big loans...

'More masks than jellyfish': coronavirus waste ends up in ocean

Renee Cho, Columbia University, State of the Planet Earth Instituted A glut of discarded single-use masks and gloves is washing up on...

The Future of Multilateral Organisations

Amb. Ron Prosor, Head of the Abba Eban Institute for Diplomacy, IDC Herzliya.

Covid-19 Impact: Singapore to fund rooftop farms to increase food security

EurAsian Times Desk, EurAsian Times Amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, city-state Singapore is accelerating its plan to increase its...

Zoomplomacy - The new Virtual Diplomacy

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced foreign services and international organizations to completely shift online in order to conduct...

China and India Move to Defuse Tensions After Clashes in the Himalayas

Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times The confrontations between troops along their shared border led to injuries and the most serious...

Foreign Policy By Example

Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs Crisis at home makes the United States vulnerable abroad. Read the full article HERE

The overmilitarization of American foreign policy

Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs The United States must recover the full range of its power - U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to...

“Mask Diplomacy” and Understating China’s Confucian Strategy in International Relations

Punsara Amarasinghe, Modern Diplomacy The unexpected situation erupted in the West before coping with the coronavirus was followed by...

Artificial intelligence (AI) for Diplomacy

Arik Segal, Founder & CEO Conntix

Economic Diplomacy going Digital

HE Ambassador Magnus Hellgren, Ambassador of Sweden to Israel. Leveraging digital diplomacy for economic diplomacy.