How a short video speaks volumes about current U.S. approaches to diplomacy in China...

Robert Lavender, a Fall 2022 ASU Leadership, Diplomacy, and National Security Lab Fellow, recently published an article about the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and its impact on global diplomacy.

"Learning and celebrating our history should help restore our confidence in who we are as Americans. Pride in nation should not derive from a contrived happy view of history but rather from a recognition that our experiment in freedom and democracy always was and remains a work in progress." 

Montenegrin political analyst and LDNS Lab ASU World Innovator Ljubomir Filipović comments on the impact of Russian information policy and propaganda in Serbia and Europe at large in this Jamestown Foundation piece.

Americans know a great deal about certain global leaders and institutions...However, as a new Pew Research Center survey shows, Americans are less familiar with other topics...

I’m from a fortunate generation. I can remember a time — about a quarter-century ago — when the world seemed to be coming together. The great Cold War contest between communism and capitalism appeared to be over. Democracy was still spreading. Nations were becoming more economically interdependent. The internet seemed ready to foster worldwide communications. It seemed as if there would be a global convergence around a set of universal values — freedom, equality, personal dignity, pluralism, human rights.

George P. Shultz is a former U.S. secretary of labor, treasury and state, and was director of the Office of Management and Budget and a distinguished fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution writes about how he's struck that there is one lesson he learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm.