No matter what reforms the State Department undertakes, renewing American diplomacy will be impossible without a new domestic compact—a broadly shared sense of the United States’ purpose in the world ...

She was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 2013 to 2017. They served as Co-Chairs of the Advisory Committee for a Council on Foreign Relations Special Report, Revitalizing the ...

The new secretary of state has a difficult task: not only rebuilding U.S. credibility abroad but also repairing a damaged diplomatic bureaucracy at home.

Diplomacy is essential to America's security. And yes, the State Department needs fixing. I've spent 37 years in the foreign ...

With the increase in subnational international activity, the United States should create a State Department office to facilitate activity already underway, enlist city and state leaders as allies ...

The United States needs to rethink public diplomacy in an era dominated by great-power competition. U.S. public diplomacy must work harder than ever to showcase the superior attractiveness and value ...

The State Department has drifted away from its core mission of protecting and promoting U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values abroad. In foreign political, cultural, and educational ...

The State Department must become more agile and recognize that consulates which were once necessary in the pre-cable news, pre-internet-era are now largely irrelevant.

President Biden will champion American diplomacy in the face of Russian aggression towards Ukraine in his first State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, according to advance excerpts of the ...

Blinken, a 58-year-old longtime Biden confidant, was confirmed to be the 71st secretary of state by the Senate on Tuesday in a 78-22 vote.

The United States has a long history of deploying new technology as a mechanism for public diplomacy (the conduct of foreign policy by engagement with foreign publics) but it was relatively slow to ...

US science diplomacy also happens outside of the state department. Physicist and former energy secretary Ernest Moniz was instrumental in negotiating the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.