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Netflix’s “The Diplomat”: Pop Culture Gives Diplomacy a Boost

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

"The Diplomat" is Hollywood's take on the foreign service. Deep Dish explores the significance with a career diplomat and TV producer.

Rufus Sewell, left, and Keri Russell pose to promote "The Diplomat".
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What Are Sanctions—and Do They Work?

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Featured Video

Research Associate Ethan Kessler explains the benefits and drawbacks of what’s become a major US foreign policy tool.

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Celebrating and Empowering the Next Generation

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Impact Stories by Elizabeth Shackelford

Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford reflects on how the Council helps students dive in.

A back view of graduates during a graduation ceremony.
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Siloed Farmers: Reconciling Information Divides

Podcast
Youth in Agriculture: Transforming Local Food Systems

Existing barriers between rural and urban areas, and young and old farmers perpetuates an information divide in agriculture that a young cattle farmer is trying to reconcile.

A young man leads two cows on a dirt road.
Sagar Kulkarni
Food and Agriculture

Asian Americans Are True Internationalists

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Running Numbers by Libby Berry

More so than any other racial or ethnic group, Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Americans want the United States to play an active part in global affairs.

students walk past a display for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Farmington High School
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Public Opinion

The Conflict Cannot End until Ukraine Is Part of the West

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POLITICO EU
Ivo H. Daalder

“The question is when and how,” writes Council President Ivo Daalder.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Chigi Palace, Government's office, in Rome
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Mexico's GM Corn Ban Is about More Than Biotech

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Global Food for Thought by Kailey Griffith

Mexico's threat to ban GM corn presents an opportunity to re-evaluate agricultural norms in the United States and address inequities in trade.

Central Illinois farmers deposit harvested corn on the ground outside a full grain elevator in Virginia, Ill.
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Food and Agriculture

The Biden Administration Is Still Flying Blind on Latin America

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World Politics Review
Paul Poast

"At best, one could say that US policy toward Latin America is a piecemeal and inconsistent amalgam of sporadic attempts at engagement," Paul Poast writes.

President Joe Biden hosts a working lunch with heads of state and government during the Ninth Summit of the Americas
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Summit in Seoul, Victory Day, Syria Joins Arab League

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

Nirmal Ghosh, Stefan Kornelius, and Philip Stephens join guest host Carla Anne Robbins to discuss the week's top news stories.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
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Global Politics

Erdogan Lashes out at Rival as Voters Prepare to Go to the Polls

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NPR's Morning Edition
Sibel Oktay

Erdogan's standing is in large part due to the government's controlling of the media and silencing opposition, argues Sibel Oktay.

Erdogan pointing to the right holding a microphone
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