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India’s Smart Vaccine Diplomacy
Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate| As countries scramble to secure supplies in the face of "vaccine race," India has enhanced its global...


Where is the Africa-China Relationship Headed in 2021?
Hannah Ryder, Center for Strategic and International Studies| Many African countries experienced an uneven relationship with China in...


Diplomats worldwide go digital to honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Ilan Manor, Jerusalem Post| On the global arena, International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed by many states and diplomatic...


How Joe Biden Hopes to Shift U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Kirsten Fontenrose, National Interest | The Middle East is the only major region of the world not mentioned by name in the “Restore and...


Pursuing Normalization With Iraq, Israeli Digital Diplomacy Plays the Heritage Card
Jonathan Shamir, Haaretz | Unlike its online outreach to the Gulf states, the Foreign Ministry's ‘Israel in the Iraqi Dialect’ Facebook...


Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry wants to open new embassies in Africa this year
Ukrinform | The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine plans to open new diplomatic missions in Africa this year and strengthen personnel...


Data: Governance and Geopolitics
Gregory F. Treverton & Pari Esfandiari, Center for Strategic and International Studies| Big data is often perceived as the black gold of...


A China Strategy to Reunite America's Allies
Peter Trubowitz & Charles Kupchan /Chatham House America’s relationships with its core democratic partners are set to rebound...


Students bridging diplomatic divide through videogames
Max Rivlin-Nadler, KPBS | Salaam, a video game that's meant to encourage empathy and help refugees. Its developer, 25-year-old Lual...


Europe Can’t Blame Donald Trump Anymore
Tom Mctague, The Atlantic | With Joe Biden soon to take over the White House, Europe has lost its unifying bogeyman. The question for the...


Why Beijing Hasn’t Called Biden
James Palmer, Foreign Policy | Just as some Americans are convinced that the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party is around the...


Humans have been living aboard the International Space Station for 20 years. What comes next?
Christian Davenport , The Washington Post | The astronauts have managed to live aboard the International space station continuously for...


Trump and Africa: How Ethiopia was 'betrayed' over Nile dam
Farouk Chothia, BBC News | US President Donald Trump, escalating tensions between two long-standing American allies, Egypt and Ethiopia,...


The Transformation of Diplomacy: How to Save the State Department?
William J. Burns and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Foreign Affairs | After four years of attacks by the Trump administration, U.S. diplomacy...


China continues non-interference diplomacy in Syria amidst of Corona Pandemic
Jayshree Borah, Modern Diplomacy Earlier on May this year, the UNSC’s Security Council briefings on Syria, the US ambassador to UN Kelly...


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,...


China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ diplomats are ready to fight
Chun Han Wong and Chao Deng, The Wall Street Journal The Chinese Foreign Ministry has adopted an aggressive new stance, spurred by...


At Center of Taliban Deal, a U.S. Envoy Who Made It Personal
Mujib Mashal and Lara Jakes, NYT | It seemed a thankless and impossible assignment: negotiating a deal with the Taliban that offers the...
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