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Aug 19, 2025 // To make humanitarian aid more effective in this time of heightened crisis and shrinking budgets, the global humanitarian enterprise needs restructuring. Doing so requires we make good ...
Aug 11, 2025 // Escalating tariffs and energy policies privileging fossil fuels among wealthier economies are threatening ...
Aug 13, 2025 // Across the globe, more adults feel satisfied with their lives, according to Gallup polling. This boost in ...
Aug 08, 2025 // Diplomatic Courier’s Stephanie Gull brings you weekly under–the–radar stories from around the world. This week in Subsaharan Africa: An escalating conflict between Nigeria’s farmers ...
Aug 07, 2025 // People’s confidence in national institutions may be rooted in their satisfaction with specific aspects of their local environment. Gallup polling data show satisfaction with local ...
Aug 18, 2025 // Amb. William E. Grayson speaks with Amb. Lisa Gable about the USA Pavilion at World Expo 2025, and the U.S.’ take on this year’s theme of “designing future society for our lives.” Core ...
Does the UN have the relevance to move the needle with respect to the multiple, historic challenges we currently face? The nationalist tone set by the P5, or the Permanent Five, is inherently at odds ...
Dec 05, 2020 // That being said, it is with great excitement—perhaps one of the few excitements for me this year—that I can curate my own “best books” list for the Diplomatic Courier. Before the year ...
Aug 20, 2020 // Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was going to be seminal for the fight against climate change. Not only were two major environmental conventions scheduled for the fall of 2020 ...
Jun 03, 2023 // The world's four largest political entities—China, the EU, India, and the U.S.—comprise 40% of the world population. In his new book Alasdair Roberts identifies commonalities across ...