Consular Protection

The world is rightly outraged at how Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, but I was also horrified by where.  As the U.S. Consul General in...

Soft power as an important structural component of a foreign policy strategy of a state

The architect of the ‘soft power’ concept Joseph Nye focuses on ‘the ability to achieve the desired through voluntary cooperation, not by coercion or tricks’. The name...

From WWI to www: Geopolitics 100 years later – Book Review

It is an honor to present to our readers our esteemed alumni colleague and friend Professor Anis Bajrektarević and his newly released book From...

The rise of Eurasia: Geopolitical advantages and historic pitfalls

Asian players are proving to be conceptually and bureaucratically better positioned in the 21st century’s Great Game that involves tectonic geopolitical shifts with the...

Diplomatic Defense of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran considers defense diplomacy to strengthen the efforts of the defense sector in the supine area in the process of...

A new world system, or a world without a hegemon

The state of the world and, frequently, the course of history depended on the foundation on which peace on Earth was based - either...

World Youth Forum: A Reflection of Egypt’s Strong Diplomacy

It was my pleasure to join and met with  more than five thousand youth leaders from around the globe, thousands of Egyptian youth and...

How national diplomatic missions are adapting to a fast-changing environment

Diplomacy at a crossroads The impact of technology in diplomacy cannot be overstated. If “twenty years ago, telegrams from embassies would arrive in paper form”,...

Kofi Annan: A Humane Diplomat

I was deeply shocked whenever I heard that Kofi Annan is no more. A noble peace laureate, a visionary leader, an intellectual and scholar,...

Pakistan and India: Changing Minds, Winning Peace

With the emergence of world as a global village, relations between two nations getting more popularity as compared to relations among respective governments. Governments...

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