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American Diplomat goes behind the scenes to hear real stories from diplomats who lived newsworthy events overseas. Experience the Cuban revolution, Central American insurgencies, the end of...
How to get bomb-ready uranium out of the wrong hands? It's the mid-90s. The Soviet Union just fell. Andrew Weber, former Assistant Secretary...
Can the US get out of its own way and turn this into a win? Ambassador Gary Grappo tells us how to do that, in a conversation with Pete and...
By what dirty tricks exactly did Orban seize control of his country? And how then did his rival Magyar beat him? And between those bookends,...
AMB Kurt Volker, who has known Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban for 30 years, helps us understand the man, his early vision for Hungary...
After a long and successful career as a U.S. diplomat, AMB Jeff Feltman went on to places where no US official has ever gone before, as the...
It's not too early to start thinking about the recovery of US influence in a post-Trump world. Gen Z has some answers that align with their...
In Saudi Arabia women now drive, work and travel as they please, and the country has moved toward normalizing relations with Israel. Amb. Mi...
For many of us, the Middle East is a place of intractable conflict and endless complexity. Ambassador Stuart Jones lived those complications...
US Ambassador to Zambia Mark Storella helps us understand why support for democracy and public health achieves the same objectives as "hard...
First, we welcome the wonderful Ambassador Dan Rosenblum as new co-host for the show. And we at American Diplomat still believe that the wor...
Is the Gen Z drive for authenticity exactly what the country needs now? Our guests ASU Barrett Honors Students Kate Kelley and Sophia Agelas...
At a time when Trump wages war against expertise, with scores of career ambassadors being recalled and a thinning of officers in the field,...
You probably thought that an ambassador's job was to help Americans and work with local governments. And so did Ambassador Dan Rosenblum! Bu...
Have you ever heard of the teeny tiny Bureau of Intelligence and Research within the State Department? Pull up a chair, because we have Phil...
Israeli security has been the third rail of public discourse. Support all that Israel does or Hamas owns you. The result: waning support. Jo...
Jewish-American political analyst Joel Rubin unpacks the reasons for the increase in hate crimes and why Jewish-American groups did not expe...
Must our foreign policy be based on ego, resources and might-makes-right? Can we effectively meet future challenges with policies based on A...
Why hasn't Trump decided to keep US boots on the ground? Let us count the reasons. Hint, it's not because it would be a bad look.
An oldie but a goodie and one of our very favorites, our annual New Year's special: In Vodka Veritas with Dick Hoagland. Ambassador Dick Hoa...
For the holidays, we asked diplomats to share their tales. We have Ken Quinn whose young kids' Christmas in Austria was saved by a team incl...
The Administration's new National Security Strategy document contains exaggerations, contradictions, insults, racism, posturing and slamming...
Imagine a free and prosperous Venezuela. What would it take? We take you to a simulated White House Situation Room with diplomat and Venezue...
The chainsaw was one thing. But the dog economists? Either way, $20billion is a nice bailout package for Argentina. Senior State Department...
State Department lawyer Mike Peay traces how, during a time of deep racial conflict, black American jazz artists went overseas to promote th...
There are no embassies in space, so why diplomacy? Space is everywhere on earth – in financial transactions, food supplies, GPS – and it is...
Nepalese democracy is strong but its economy is not. Social platforms gave voice to the aggrieved. When the government threatened access, yo...
Senator/Ambassador Jeff Flake, one of POTUS' first targets, tells us why he believes that inclusiveness will win in the US and beyond.
POTUS has wide discretion in sending the standing military into American streets. Public and international law expert John Bellinger examine...
Ex-National Security Council lawyer John Bellinger takes us into a hypothetical White House Situation Room to advise on the shaky legal grou...
Amb. Patrick Theros is back to parse just how the Gaza Peace Plan will likely unfold and why Trump will have to marshal his inner Tony Sopra...
Between Trump and the Nobel Peace Prize. Israel's Bibi crossed a redline with his attack on Qatar. The fabulously knowledgeable Amb. Patrick...
Blowing up small boats to stop drug trafficking? Or is it like swatting flies with a blowtorch? And what about those drug-laden planes still...
Polar opposites: Mexican President Sheinbaum – a fact-based scientist, an introvert, methodical, with high standards…and then there is Trump...
After repeated Russian invasions and/or occupations and with a population only 0.89% the size of Russia, how do you defend yourself, particu...
Use entertainment as political discourse, distort reality, mock adversaries, distract the public from the real issues. The Romans started it...
What happens when our president operates from his own alternative reality? A growing Axis of Upheaval against us? Elizabeth Shackelford is b...
We fought, died, celebrated victories and became prosperous together. Canadians could count on us, until now. Journalist Steve Scherer walks...
What prompts someone to become a violent Muslim extremist? Even more, what would get them to turn against their comrades? Counter-terrorism...
Why is Kazakhstan safe from Russia? It juts into the heart of Russia and shares the longest continuous land border in the world. What is the...
What happens when you are instructed to treat the aggressor as an innocent? Former Ambassador Bridget Brink's career reaches a fork in the r...
He's charismatic, he's exciting, he's strong. How do elected autocrats woo their publics and then destroy the very countries they promised t...
It is the 1950s. Senator Joseph McCarthy and his henchman Roy Cohn target and humiliate our diplomats for accurately reporting an eventual M...
Secretary Rubio's stated goal is to reduce our diplomatic corps by 15%. Does it stop there? After four years of whim and chaos will the worl...
What happens when tariff policy becomes a whim? Career commercial officer Dan Crocker peers into the chaos and breaks down the stakes for bu...
The old approach to national security is breaking apart. Americans demand change. Young diplomats and global service professionals today hav...
Will diplomacy come next? Will Trump and Netanyahu give the Ayatollah an off-ramp? Acting Secretary of State and Undersecretary in the first...
For decades Plan Colombia was the gold standard for tackling counter-insurgency. With the current spike in cartel/gang violence, are Colombi...
The Federal Government has a long-standing entity which reviews possible threats posed by foreign actors, investing inside the US. What happ...
With Assad overthrown in Syria and the new regime freeing themselves of decades long sanctions will they be able to stop the flow of financi...
With so much disinformation flying around, Senator Chris Van Hollen sets the record straight and takes down Secretary Rubio at the same time...