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·Mar 23

Analysis | Democracy in crisis: The challenges faced by Nigerian President-elect Bola Tinubu

Joseph Lee On March 1, 2023, Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos, was declared the winner of the 2023 Nigerian presidential election. Securing 37 percent of the vote, the All Progressives Congress party candidate would become the first Nigerian president-elect to take office with less than a 50 percent plebiscite…

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Analysis | Democracy in crisis: The challenges faced by Nigerian President-elect Bola Tinubu

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·Mar 20

Analysis | Imperfect, but impactful: Personal lessons learned from Ireland’s two years on the U.N. Security Council

Meghan Boroughs In October 2020, I left a job at a public relations firm to join the Irish Mission to the United Nations, working on strategic communications and media engagement in the lead-up to Ireland’s 2021–2022 term on the Security Council. …

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Analysis | Imperfect, but impactful: Personal lessons learned from Ireland’s two years on the U.N.

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·Mar 17

Analysis | Colombo-Venezuelan diplomacy under the Petro administration and beyond

Lara Toscana Last November, Colombian President Gustavo Petro resumed explorative peace talks with the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional — ELN), a Marxist-Leninist insurgent group that past governments unsuccessfully tried to bring to a peace agreement. Given that the ELN has long been aligned with Venezuela, Petro chose…

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Analysis | Colombo-Venezuelan diplomacy under the Petro administration and beyond

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·Mar 7

Analysis | Think fast: How SWIFT and competing networks draw us closer to a new cold war

Emilio Lugo On January 30th, 2023, news outlets announced that Russia and Iran had linked their financial communications and transfer systems in a move designed to mitigate the effect of sanctions. Each state had been cut off from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), with Iran losing access…

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Analysis | Think fast: How SWIFT and competing networks draw us closer to a new cold war

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·Mar 7

Analysis | Sports diplomacy — the United States must do better

Travis Murphy On February 17, 2022, I received a call that Russian authorities detained WNBA star player Brittney Griner at a Moscow airport, days before Russia would invade Ukraine. Working closely for ten months behind the scenes on Griner’s release, I saw first-hand how Russia used her as a pawn…

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Analysis | Sports diplomacy — the United States must do better

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·Mar 3

Q&A | Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year later with Ambassador John Sullivan

Ambassador John Sullivan joined ISD’s Director of Programs and Research Dr. Kelly McFarland on this special recorded Q&A for the Diplomatic Pouch. They discuss the now-year-long Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ambassador Sullivan’s time as U.S. ambassador to Russia, and public service at a time of hyper-partisanship. Ambassador John J…

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Q&A | Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year later with Ambassador John Sullivan

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·Mar 2

Analysis | The implications of China’s clearing arrangement with Brazil

Arjan van Tongerlo In the intensifying geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) recently managed to secure a significant win: the memorandum of understanding signed by China’s central bank to set up yuan clearing arrangements in Brazil. The clearing arrangement will allow for…

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Analysis | The implications of China’s clearing arrangement with Brazil

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·Feb 17

Analysis | Nazi war crimes prosecutions still matter for European politics and diplomacy today. Here’s why.

Sophie al Mutawaly On January 27th, 2023, the world celebrated the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Now, almost 80 years after the end of the Holocaust and World War II, German prosecutors are racing against the clock to bring suspected Nazi criminals to justice. These…

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Analysis | Nazi war crimes prosecutions still matter for European politics and diplomacy today …

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·Feb 16

Analysis | Great power conflict: The case for “dangerous waters”

Katherine Wells In a recently published article examining the path and course of a world mired in great power competition, ISD Senior Fellow Casimir Yost outlines possible scenarios involving Putin’s war in Ukraine and Xi’s potential invasion of Taiwan. …

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Analysis | Great power conflict: The case for “dangerous waters”

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·Feb 9

Analysis | Great power conflict: The case for “A bridge too far”

Ryan Conner In a recently published article examining the path and course of a world mired in great power competition, ISD Senior Fellow Casimir Yost outlines possible scenarios involving Putin’s war in Ukraine and Xi’s potential invasion of Taiwan. …

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Analysis | Great power conflict: The case for “A bridge too far”

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Institute for the Study of Diplomacy

Institute for the Study of Diplomacy

Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy brings together diplomats, other practitioners, scholars, and students to explore global challenges

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