In the age of WikiLeaks, does diplomacy stand a chance?
Veteran diplomat Nicholas Burns has spent decades negotiating the geopolitical changes most of us passively take for granted, most recently the budding U.S.-India nuclear agreement. He has also witnessed the rise of nonstate actors in diplomacy and the threat the secrecy presented by new technologies. In this interview, Burns, now a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of ...
Veteran diplomat Nicholas Burns has spent decades negotiating the geopolitical changes most of us passively take for granted, most recently the budding U.S.-India nuclear agreement. He has also witnessed the rise of nonstate actors in diplomacy and the threat the secrecy presented by new technologies. In this interview, Burns, now a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, discusses WikiLeaks, diplomatic wit, nontraditional diplomatic issues like climate change and human rights, America’s global posture, and the challenge of setting priorities.
Parag Khanna is the founder and managing partner of FutureMap. His most recent book is MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us. Twitter: @paragkhanna
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