Assimilation is better than integration, counsels Ambassador Michael Polt of ASU's Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab.
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May 5, 2022
Immigration expert Eric Farnsworth is back to parse what he describes as our unilateral disarmament diplomatically in the Western Hemisphere, due to b
April 28, 2022
Bringing Europe and China to Africa and Granola Bars to Jail - originally posted in March 2018. Enjoy!
April 21, 2022
Overseas and at home, Foreign Service officers face danger to themselves and their careers, from Benghazi to McCarthyism to the Trump presidency.
April 14, 2022
War crimes and genocide, from the Holocaust of World War II to Ukraine today, and many other places on earth.
April 7, 2022
No one guessed Ukraine could succeed in combatting Putin. How has the country done it? What has Putin got wrong?
March 31, 2022
The world has lost a great stateswoman; Pete has lost a mentor.
March 24, 2022
What, exactly, is a sanction? An embargo? How do they help Ukraine and the West defeat Putin's aggression? Are they working?
March 10, 2022
Gas and Oil, Russia, Europe, the US, Azerbaijan, China and the war in Ukraine.
March 3, 2022
Most of the world is united in its condemnation of Russia's aggression in Ukraine, with the conspicuous absence of comment from Latin America.
February 24, 2022
What better way to launch a depressive episode than to leave a beloved job as US Ambassador to Panama, at the pinacle of one's career, all because one
February 17, 2022
For Michael Peay, one of the first African Americans to serve in the Office of the Legal Adviser, the (incredibly hard) work was "tremendous fun!" Whe
February 10, 2022
Russian mothers, mud season, urban warfare. These are among the threats limiting Putin's ability to agress in Ukraine.
February 3, 2022
Agnes Schneider, would-be opera singer, saver of lives, confiscator of passports.
January 27, 2022
Working your way up to an ambasssadorship is such a slog, if you can just buy the honorific instead.
January 20, 2022
Dick Hoagland, Central Asia expert, is back to help us understand recent violence in Kazakhstan.
January 13, 2022
Bernie Aronson, who led the US effort to end wars in El Salvador and Colombia, shares insight on resolving the most intense geopolitical conflicts: "Y
January 6, 2022
Are we talking about Chile or the US, or any of a number of other countries worldwide?
December 30, 2021
Ambassador Dick Hoagland, having served many years in Russia and former Soviet republics, has had ample opportunity to consider the high-stakes drinki