British ambassador Peter Mendelson is fired the same week as 10 new ambassadors present their credentials in a White House ...

Ambassador Serge Mombouli, the longest-serving African envoy to the United States, representing the Republic of Congo, died ...

Haflin Nazri Aziz, wife of Malaysian Ambassador Mohamed Nazri Aziz, sits in her Washington DC residence. Behind the many ambassadors who are busy representing their countries in the United States are ...

Americans tend to look back on the Cold War as a difficult but successful time during which the United States and its allies assembled a coherent grand strategy and followed it for more than four ...

EU Ambassador Jovita Neliupšienė hosts the Transatlantic Bridge Awards on May 7. When Lithuania’s Jovita Neliupšienė was born in 1980, in the city of Panevėžys, her country was still part of the ...

In a time of pandemic, protest and a presidency that thrives on unpredictably, protocol may seem like a thing of the past. Capricia Penavic Marshall served as special assistant to first lady Hillary ...

Many in the United States look beyond their borders and see a dangerous world with raging wars, surging violence and deepening instability. But a new report by the Eurasia Group, a leading political ...

Dutch-speaking Suriname is the smallest independent nation in South America. Rainforests cover 94% of its area, and its biodiversity is exceeded only by its ethnic richness—an unusual mix of East ...

Bishara A. Bahbah taught at Harvard University, where he was the associate director of its Middle East Institute. He served as editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem-based Palestinian newspaper, Al-Fajr. He ...

Ambassadors Lilit Makunts of Armenia and Khazar Ibrahim of Azerbaijan both tell the Washington Diplomat they look forward to a new era of peace and friendship between their two countries. (Photo by ...

Mosaic glass tiles, dated 100 B.C.E. to 100 C.E. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution) Tucked in a corridor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, a small and exquisitely arranged display ...

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a think tank funded by the federal government, focuses on conflict resolution in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and other global hotspots. (Photo by Larry ...