Center for Innovative Diplomacy Archive

Our hyper-connected world has put more power in the hands of individuals and other non-state actors – from NGOs like Greenpeace to transnational terror groups like the so-called Islamic State. Over the past decade, foreign...

To download a PDF of this paper, click here. Building a Robust Capacity Framework for U.S. City Diplomacy By Jay Wang and Sohaela Amiri With cities increasingly poised – and being called upon – to play a...

The largely untold story of Southern California’s unique place in American diplomatic history is now being told, and holds invaluable lessons for today. In the last decade of the Cold War, the former Center for Innovative...

At an early point in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as the melancholy prince leaves the stage with the ghost of his dead father, a guard remarks: “Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark.” Today, as the princes of our time embrace...