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Analysis | Romania’s Infrastructure Diplomacy: promoting stability in a tense region
Analysis | Romania’s Infrastructure Diplomacy: promoting stability in a tense region
“Medium and small powers are increasing the sophistication of their tools across the spectrum of infrastructure diplomacy, albeit sometimes…
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Oct 9
Analysis | A Top-Down Worldview: How world maps relegate the Arctic’s importance, and how China is…
Analysis | A Top-Down Worldview: How world maps relegate the Arctic’s importance, and how China is…
“Today a greater focus on hot wars and threats elsewhere has regressed Arctic threat perception to a level of dangerous complacency.”
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Sep 30
Analysis | History for Authoritarians
Analysis | History for Authoritarians
Dr. Kelly McFarland
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Sep 23
Analysis | Why an Old, Grounded Ship Could Start a U.S.-China War
Analysis | Why an Old, Grounded Ship Could Start a U.S.-China War
Dr. Kelly McFarland
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Sep 16
Analysis | The U.S. is Losing the Ayatollah’s War
Analysis | The U.S. is Losing the Ayatollah’s War
Cultural diplomacy is the key to better U.S.-Iran relations.
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Sep 9
Analysis | TikTok is a Threat. It Shouldn’t be Banned
Analysis | TikTok is a Threat. It Shouldn’t be Banned
“A TikTok ban would establish the first major ban of a digital platform in the United States and could become a catalyst for future…
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Aug 28
Analysis | How U.S.
Analysis | How U.S.
“These new economic realities have caused diversification of business methods and supply chains. At the same time, they have pushed the…
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Jul 25
Analysis | Has Mearsheimer’s “Stopping Power of Water” Reached its Limit?
Analysis | Has Mearsheimer’s “Stopping Power of Water” Reached its Limit?
“Mearsheimer argues that global hegemony is made difficult by the “stopping power of water.” Yet as belligerent powers endure domestic…
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Jul 1
Profile | Meet this year’s Rusk Fellows: Joe Yackley
Profile | Meet this year’s Rusk Fellows: Joe Yackley
A conversation with 2023–2024 ISD Rusk Fellow Dr. Joseph Yackley, a career Foreign Service Officer who most recently served as an Iraq…
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Jun 24
Analysis | American Sanctions Eased, Venezuelan Migration Increased
Analysis | American Sanctions Eased, Venezuelan Migration Increased
Once upon a time, there was a belief that allowing Venezuela to export more oil and gas would curtail Venezuela’s outmigration. There was…
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Jun 10
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