John Shaw is a contributing writer for the Diplomat and is the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University.

The latest crop of 14 new ambassadors in Washington includes diplomats from two former Soviet republics, two Caribbean nations, three African countries and three Arab ones.

Isabelle Vladiou knows painfully well what happens when a dictatorship abuses its people. Born in Romania in the aftermath of ...

Diplomats and the creative industries collided in Washington last month for Meridian International Center's fifth edition of ...

A new show at Washington’s Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens delivers an exquisite look at Princess Natalie Paley.

The Biden administration just made a worthy pledge: “The United States is committed to sustaining critical investments in the fundamentals of thriving societies,” the White House stated a few days ago ...

Behind the ambassadors who are busy representing their countries, their spouses take on a crucial, but overlooked, role in Washington.

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 ...

The Embassy of Argentina was transformed into an art gallery last month as paintings by seven Argentinian artists adorned the walls for the Diplomatic Chair Reception.

Earlier this month, I set off on one of the most important trips of my life. I flew to Poland and took a car to the Ukraine border, then continued 400 miles to Kyiv by train. I wanted to explore often ...