List of Foreign & Public Diplomacy articles
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U.S. President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) Kim Got What He Wanted in Singapore. Trump Didn’t.
The G-7 and Singapore summits have put on display breathtaking strategic incoherence and appalling moral vacuity on the part of the Trump administration.
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A view of the U.S. Department of State in Washington on July 31,2014. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Appointee Compiles Loyalty List of U.S. Employees at U.N., State
Mari Stull’s arrival at the State Department’s International Organization Bureau is triggering an exodus of top career staffers.
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President Barack Obama meets with Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough and speechwriter Ben Rhodes on Air Force One on June 4, 2009 on route to Cairo, Egypt. (Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images) Ben Rhodes Led From Behind in Life
The Obama staffer's memoirs depict an administration that wanted to change history, but never got past managing crises.
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US President Ronald Reagan talks to Japanese Premier Yasuhiro Nakasone on May 5, 1986. (MIKE SARGENT/AFP/Getty Images) The Slow Rise and Sudden Fall of the G-7
The history of the Group of Seven shows how the West went from a geographic category to a geopolitical group — and back again.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend a panel discussion titled 'Launch Event Women's Entrepreneur Finance Initiative' on the second day of the G20 summit on July 8, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany. (Ukas Michael - Pool/Getty Images) The West Will Die So That Trump Can Win
America created the postwar order by delaying immediate economic gratification. Those days are over.
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A man watches a television news screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a railway station in Seoul on May 16, 2018. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) North Korea Is Following the Saddam Hussein Playbook
The big question for the world is whether the United States will now follow its old Iraq playbook, too.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un departs Singapore on June 12. (Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information via Getty Images) Trump Pardons Another Celebrity Criminal
At the Singapore summit, the U.S. president let Kim off the hook.
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Donald Trump walks to the official G7 welcoming ceremony in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 8, 2018. (GEOFF ROBINS / AFP) Trump’s Creative Destruction of the International Order
The global system was long overdue for a shake-up. Trump has been happy to oblige.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks upon the return of American detainees Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, and Tony Kim after they were released by North Korea, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on May 10. (Saul Loeb/AFP) North Korean Dissidents Lament That Human Rights Are a Non-Issue as Trump Meets Kim
The State Department says it will address rights issues at other venues.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo answers questions at a press briefing on June 11 in Singapore. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Trump Didn’t Prepare Much for His Meeting With Kim. Will That Matter?
The best improvisation requires prep work.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, Chief of Staff John Kelly, left, and National Security Advisor John Bolton, right, at the G-7 summit in Quebec, Canada, on June 9. (Leon Neal/Getty Images) By Bungling G-7, Trump Sabotaged Singapore
The United States needs its allies if it wants to make a deal with North Korea.
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A skier wearing a cow costume arrives in the finish area before the second run of the women's slalom race at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland on Feb. 18, 2017. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images) Justin Trudeau Is Running a Milk Racket
Trump is right: Canada's protectionist food policies rip the world off.
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China's Chairman Mao Zedong met U.S. President Richard Nixon in Beijing on Feb. 21, 1972. Some Summits Soar, Some Plunge
Nixon and Reagan managed to negotiate with Mao and Gorbachev because they had personal chemistry, common goals, and control of their domestic politics.
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Supporters of President Donald Trump shout toward members of the press before the start of a rally at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) The Trump-Kim Summit Is WrestleMania for Pundits
Trump is putting on a show in Singapore, and the media is falling for it.
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U.S. President Donald Trump waves from the door of Air Force One upon arrival in Singapore on June 10. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) This Is What North Korea Sanctions Relief Should Look Like
If North Korea agrees to denuclearize, here's how Trump should go about rolling back sanctions.
