John Shaw is a contributing writer for the Diplomat and is the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is one of the most skilled and ...

Miami native Larry Luxner, a veteran journalist and photographer, has reported from more than 100 countries in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia for a variety of news ...

A handful of World War II veterans were guests of honor at two events in Washington, D.C., in May to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the end of the war in Europe 11 months ...

Hrazdan, a small city 45 km northeast of Yerevan. Armenia’s GDP will grow only 1.2% this year. (Photo by Larry Luxner) An ethnic Armenian who grew up in upstate New York, Kherlopian is a founding ...

Gustavo Petro, 62, is a former M-19 guerrillero who in 1985 was captured and tortured by the army, served 18 months in prison, eventually went into politics and in 2022 won election as the 34th ...

The Brookings Institution, also based in Washington, was excluded from the overall index because it ranked first worldwide in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and is now designated a “Center of Excellence.”For ...

During peace talks in Northern Ireland, public opinion polls found that 52% of Protestants and over a quarter of Catholics said power-sharing was unacceptable – yet peace was achieved months later.

Before the ghoulish clowns and circus performers, the revolutionary movement of Cubism, the notoriously cruel treatment of women, and the immense power of Guernica, Picasso began transforming simple, ...

Bojan Vujić, Bosnia & Herzegovina's ambassador to the United States, at the entrance to his embassy in Washington's Foggy Bottom district. (Photo by Larry Luxner) Bojan Vujić made his name on the ...

Large container ship in a dock at Antwerp harbor. (Photo by Anneka/Shutterstock) Neliupšienė, noting that the EU-US economic partnership makes up 42% of global GDP, warned that Trump’s tariffs will ...

Washington boasts two clubs on the 11 Most Exclusive Private Clubs in America list, created by Los Angeles-based consultancy Club Marketing. One of these, the University Club, about a half mile north ...

U.S. Army veteran and legionnaire Wes Lam presented the medallion to the ambassador at an event at the French diplomat’s residence in Washington last year for Sciences Po alumni. Lam attended Sciences ...