Expo

Expo 2025 Pavilions: An Index of Reviews

Browse an index of Expo 2025 Osaka pavilion reviews—with a simple evaluation framework and links to detailed write-ups like Spain.

Stacked area chart of State Department operations and foreign assistance funding, FY2001 to FY2025, in constant 2025 dollars

Where do your diplomatic dollars go?

A quick look at the balance of State Department's funding over the last 25 years. There are a lot of myths in the State Department community, and some of the biggest are about spending, staffing, and where the money actually goes. Proponents of diplomacy and development rightly argue

Back to the Analog: AI and the Future of Public Diplomacy

A conversation on Public Diplomacy Examined (IPDGC, GW) about what AI changes in diplomacy — and what it makes more valuable than ever.

What is "AI-Powered Diplomacy" anyway?

I just finished Dan Spokojny’s great article “Should Diplomats Trust AI?” The piece is anchored by two new items: the recent Foreign Service Journal issue that focused heavily on AI (which I contributed to), as well as the December 2025 AI-Powered Diplomacy paper from the Pavel Slunkin writing

You Got Promoted. Now What? An Adaptive Leadership Guide to Career Transition

The skills that got you promoted are often the ones that will undermine you next. This is a guide to the three career transitions that change what effectiveness means — from individual contributor to manager, from manager to leader of leaders, and the inner work that makes the difference.

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Where do your diplomatic dollars go?

Back to the Analog: AI and the Future of Public Diplomacy

What is "AI-Powered Diplomacy" anyway?

You Got Promoted. Now What? An Adaptive Leadership Guide to Career Transition