The world has witnessed eras of rivalry among powerful states, with the greatest often competing for global influence, ...

Cricket bats, hockey pucks, and Dennis Rodman’s neon hair have something in common. They’ve been used as geopolitical tools when normal diplomacy fails. Athletes often make the real breakthroughs, ...

The coronavirus pandemic has threatened not only lives and livelihoods in countries around the world, but also has had a disruptive effect upon many industries, especially traditional “brick and ...

In recent years, much of the discussion around China’s “debt-trap diplomacy” has come from U.S. media and political hawks. In May 2019, then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China of using ...

Commercial diplomacy—the use of diplomatic pathways, state institutions, and political capital to promote trade, investment, ...

More than 15 years ago, some teachers from Azerbaijan visited San Diego thanks to a U.S. State Department program. One of them stayed in our Switzer Highland neighborhood east of Balboa Park, and, ...

As part of Labour’s Plan for Change the UK government has added technology to its global science and innovation network. To what extend can the network boost the UK’s reach in international tech? Late ...