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  • June 1, 2021

    Q&A with Ambassador Cindy Courville: First U.S. Ambassador to the African Union Talks Challenges, Successes, and the Future of the U.S.-Africa Partnership

    Lukogho Kasomo in Diplomacy, Economic Prosperity, Global Development | June 1, 2021

    In celebration of Africa Day 2021 and its 58th anniversary, we had the opportunity to interview Ambassador Cindy Courville, who served as the first U.S. Ambassador to the African Union (AU) from 2006 to 2008. Ambassador Courville’s long and illustrious public service career includes decades of experience shaping and transforming U.S. policy in Africa while serving with the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, and as Ambassador to the AU based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

  • May 12, 2021

    Rising to the Challenge: America’s Global COVID-19 Response

    Joan Steiger in Diplomacy, Global Development | May 12, 2021

    America’s diplomacy and development tools are on the front lines of the global COVID-19 response—and during today’s hearing on COVID-19 and the international response, both Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed that U.S. global engagement is a critical component of our country’s own health and economic recovery.

  • April 28, 2021

    How U.S. Development & Diplomacy Fared in Biden’s First 100 Days

    in Diplomacy, Global Development | April 28, 2021

    Friday, April 30th marks the Biden Administration’s first 100 days in office. While the Administration’s next 100 days are likely to be as critical as the first, here’s a look back at how America’s development and diplomacy tools have been deployed to address many of the complex global challenges affecting the world’s most vulnerable and with impacts to America’s security, prosperity, and safety.

  • April 23, 2021

    Leaders Summit on Climate: Development and Diplomacy Leading U.S. Climate Action

    Zach Cohen, Jessica Ritchie in Diplomacy, Global Development | April 23, 2021

    At this week’s Leaders Summit on Climate hosted at the White House, President Joe Biden underscored the need for international cooperation on the climate crisis, stating “No nation can solve this crisis on our own…all of us — and particularly those of us who represent the world’s largest economies — we have to step up.” This consensus was similarly reflected throughout the two-day Summit, as leaders from more than 40 countries alongside U.S. cabinet officials, business leaders, representatives from multilateral organizations, and even Pope Francis, discussed the immense challenge climate change poses and the cooperation needed to confront it.

  • March 31, 2021

    Administration’s Strategic Guidance Calls Diplomacy America’s Tool of Choice

    Guest Contributor – Adam Taylor in Diplomacy, National Security | March 31, 2021

    In early March, the Biden administration released its Interim National Security Strategic Guidance—a framing document released ahead of the National Security Strategy (NSS) that serves as an early signal of U.S. foreign policy priorities in the Biden Administration. By using diplomacy and development to connect the administration’s domestic priorities to America’s foreign policy priorities, the president has clearly signaled the significant role these tools will play over the next four years.

  • March 10, 2021

    Soft Power: A “Mission Critical” Component of National Security

    Guest Contributor – Josh Burgess in Diplomacy, Global Development, National Security | March 10, 2021

    When people think about U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF), they might envision romanticized scenes from television or the movies. But what they don’t see is what goes on behind the scenes. While SOF plays a lead role in defending our country, U.S. national security also relies on the strength and support of our civilian forces—particularly our diplomatic corps and development personnel—in countries around the world.

  • February 16, 2021

    FACT SHEET: America & Democracy – What’s at Stake at Home and Abroad?

    in Congress, Diplomacy | February 16, 2021

    The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) convened a bipartisan virtual town hall with Congressman David Price (D-NC) and former Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL), alongside USAID Acting Administrator Gloria Steele. They discussed the bipartisan agenda to strengthen democratic institutions around the world, and how that impacts our democracy here at home.

  • February 12, 2021

    Class Is in Session – USGLC Kicks-Off the Next Gen Global Leaders Network

    Emily Jennings French in Diplomacy, Global Development | February 12, 2021

    This week’s kick-off session for USGLC’s inaugural class of Next Gen Global Leaders was a proud moment for our organization. In 2020, we recruited nearly 100 bipartisan, diverse, and talented young leaders from 33 states to join our inaugural class of Next Gen Global Leaders. And this week, at the start of 2021, we welcomed them into the USGLC family as they signed into the Zoom classroom for their first session.

  • February 5, 2021

    President Biden Goes to Foggy Bottom

    John Glenn in Diplomacy | February 5, 2021

    President Biden headed to the State Department in Washington, DC’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood this week to talk about “restoring America’s place in the world” — his first visit to a cabinet agency as president. Since inauguration, the President has focused each day on a policy issue and Executive Orders, and he used this visit to make the case the United States must “earn back our leadership position” in order to “make big things happen” for American families and the world.

  • January 26, 2021

    What the Confirmation Process Says about Development, Diplomacy and U.S. Global Leadership

    Joan Steiger in Congress, Diplomacy, Global Development | January 26, 2021

    Throughout Tony Blinken’s confirmation process in the Senate, and that of other Biden cabinet picks, the importance of U.S. development, diplomacy and global leadership has been a key theme of appointees and Senators alike.

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