Supreme Leader Uses ‘Shadow Diplomacy’ to Advance Iranian Foreign Policy
…are Ali Akbar Velayati, who served as foreign minister during the presidency of Khamenei and his successor, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; Kamal Kharrazi, foreign minister in the reformist government of Mohammad…
Testimony On Intelligence and Language Capabilities
…government efforts to train more Americans in foreign languages, and studied Arabic abroad and in graduate school on a National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship. All of us who care…
Rebalancing the Toolkit: Strengthening the Civilian Instruments of Statecraft
…talent in program development, management, implementation, and evaluation. Career paths for Foreign Service officers need to reward assignments that cut across skills inside the foreign policy agencies and include inter-agency…
China’s Evolving Strategic Discourse on India
…the Pacific or the Indian Ocean that would quickly disappear.14 Note: “Foreign Minister Wang Yi Meets the Press,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, March 9,…
The Karen National Union in Post-Coup Myanmar
…400,000. Anthony Davis argues that these are gross overestimates and that the true strength of the Tatmadaw is likely to be less than 100,000, with a police force of a…
India Must Move Towards a Feminist Foreign Policy
…and 18 percent of the current leadership in embassies and high commissions. Owing to this restricted inclusion of women in the Indian Foreign Service establishments, gender mainstreaming efforts in India’s foreign policy…
Syria/Lebanon Analysis
A Strategy to Rescue Diplomacy on Syria, February 25, 2014 With Mona Yacoubian, Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center Interview| Can Syrian Talks Inch Forward? February 6, 2014 With Mona Yacoubian, Council on Foreign Relations Video| Making…
Prioritization and Sequencing of Security Council Mandates: The Case of UNMISS
…as a result have shifted their focus from static protection to supporting the training and professionalization of the local police forces that will be entrusted with protecting the sites and…