diplomacy

Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, we have witnessed a conflict that is far from clear as to when or how it will end. What is certain is that it has brought to the surface some major...

With the Ukrainian crisis unresolved and dangerously simmering in the middle of extended Europe, the notorious law of unintended consequences is back. Anything could happen including the breakdown of the already fractured relations between the two nuclear behemoths. Or maybe,...

As one of the final acts as President of the General Assembly, Ms. Espinosa passed the gavel on to the new President, Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria. Nigeria’s former UN representative banged the gavel to open his year in office...

The United States has a new missile, CHAMP (Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project), that can destroy enemy computers and electronic control systems, without killing human beings. Turkey wants back "Ottoman Diplomacy"; China knows how to lose money for oil (Leggilo...

Introducing a column by James Hansen, former diplomat in the US Foreign Service, and later newspaper correspondent from Italy. Here, he reports about Moscow's soon to come true imperial dreams in the Mediterranean Sea, and the appointment of a British...