Diplomacy in Crisis, July 2 2025

The Cost to America and the World

The American Diplomacy journal has focused its mission on presenting the voices of practitioners:  commentaries and stories from people who “have been there.”  With this section of the journal, we aim to explore what is at stake in the current diplomacy crisis, focusing on the views of practitioners, but also including commentary from informed observers from academia and the media.

 

 

The Guardian

US state department told to end nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs
All but two of the programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor would be cut, affecting nearly $1.3bn in grants

General Joe Votel, former Centcom Commander, YouTube
VOA Is a National Security Asset, Not Just a News Outlet

Ambassador William Burns, YouTube
Stand Up for Service

Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters
American Foreign Service Association urges State Dept to halt planned layoffs amid litigation

William Herkewitz, NYT
I Worked at U.S.A.I.D. for Over 8 Years. This Is Our Biggest Failure.