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.
Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau, George W. Bush Institute
The strategic importance of U.S. values-based ‘soft’ power
Argie Ghedi with Andrew Natsios, Max Bergman, Akbar Shahid Ahmed, and Kevin Whitaker, 1a WAMU NPR
dot Gov ’26: The State Department and USAID
Alice Hill and Lindsey Doyle, Foreign Affairs
Less Foreign Aid, More Climate Risk The Massive Costs of Gutting USAID