Heine Outlines Why Active Non‑Alignment Is Gaining Ground in Today’s Global Order
Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean ambassador to China and Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, discussed his publication, The Non-Aligned World (2025), and the growing relevance of “active non‑alignment” in today’s era of U.S.–China competition on the Connecting East and West podcast. During the conversation, Heine explained the central argument he and…
Heine Warns U.S. Cannot “Wish Away” China’s Embedded Presence in Latin America
In a new interview for Rearview by the ABC Radio National, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, offered historical and geopolitical context on China’s expanding presence in Latin America amid renewed U.S. efforts to reassert influence in the Western Hemisphere. Heine underscored that China’s engagement with Latin America…
Storella Reflects on Bringing Real‑World Diplomatic Practice into the Classroom
“Students want to know how the diplomatic sausage is made,” wrote Professor of the practice of diplomacy Mark Storella, in a new article for the Foreign Service Journal entitled Life After the Foreign Service: Diplomacy in Demand: University Students Are Eager to Learn from Practitioners. Reflecting on his transition from a 30‑year Foreign Service career…
Mako Analyzes U.S.–Iraq Tensions as Maliki Nomination Sparks Political Crisis
In a new article published by War on the Rocks on February 27, 2026 titled Why Trump’s Criticism of Maliki Strengthens Him in Iraq, Professor Shamiran Mako and her co-author Yasir Kuoti, PhD student of political science, offered insight into rising tensions in Iraq following the Coordination Framework’s decision to nominate former Prime Minister Nouri…
Heine on U.S. Pressure and Chile’s Digital Ambitions
Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, wrote a new article titled, Chile, meet Donroe: Rubio yanks visas over proposed China deal, published by Responsible Statecraft on February 26, 2026. The article responds to a recent diplomatic clash between the United States and Chile erupted after the U.S. State…
Garčević on the Global Repercussions of the Epstein Files
Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, was a guest on the radio podcast A Different Radio Connection, hosted by one of Montenegro’s most popular radio stations, Radio Antena M. The podcast covers a wide range of topics, from internal and regional politics to global affairs. During the…
Slobodian Analyzes Expanding Global Scrutiny of Elon Musk’s Digital and Space Ambitions
In a recent interview for Democracy Now!, Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History at the Pardee School, offered an in‑depth analysis of the growing regulatory backlash facing Elon Musk across Europe and parts of Asia. Slobodian explained that the French raid on Musk’s Paris headquarters marked the culmination of a year‑long investigation that began with…
Heine on Active Non‑Alignment in a Fractured World
In a new article for The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs titled Which Way the World Order? A Rising South, a Fractured West, and the Path Ahead, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, examines the rapid transformation of the international order and the growing influence of the Global…
Heine on Latin America’s Response to Shifting U.S. Policy
In a recent interview on global reactions to U.S. foreign policy for The Heat, in part of CGTN America, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat to China and professor at the Pardee School, offered a stark assessment of Washington’s renewed invocation of the Monroe Doctrine. Heine argued that attempts to revive an 1823 framework for…
Garčević on What Kosovo Risks Without Proper Lobbying
Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, was featured in both an article titled Kosovo Has Not Had a Registered Lobbying Contract in the U.S. for Almost Two Years and the Albanian-language political analysis program, Exposé, titled Who speaks for Kosovo’s interests in America? for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…
Garčević Comments on the Current State of US Diplomacy and the Balkans
Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, was recently featured in “Waiting for American Ambassadors: Is the Balkans a Cause for Concern,” published by BBC News in Serbian on February 2. The article examines the challenges currently facing U.S. diplomacy, including the fact that in early 2026 there were around 80 ambassadorial vacancies awaiting…
Heine Quoted in Article on the US-China Power Struggle in Latin America
In a CNN article titled China has spent decades making inroads in Latin America. Will the ‘Donroe doctrine’ push it out? by Simone McCarthy, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat to China and professor at the Pardee School, was quoted on his thoughts on the reverberations of the United States’ intervention of Venezuela and the…
Heine on the Stability of Latin America’s Relationship to China for CNN
Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat to China and professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, was interviewed by CNN for a segment titled, How Trump’s Venezuela strike complicates China’s Latin America strategy that was published on January 23, 2026. Heine was asked to contextualize and comment on Latin America’s relationship to it’s largest…
Storella Comments on the Roots of Trump’s Foreign Policy
Professor of the practice of diplomacy Mark Storella told Portugal’s observatory newspaper, on January 23, that Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not organized around coherent strategy, but rather motivated by his personal impulses and desires. In the article entitled, The Obsession, the Bullying, and the Zigzags—Is there any Strategy in How Trump deals with Greenland?, Observador…
Slobodian Speaks on the Uniting of Libertarians and Cultural Conservatives in New Interview
Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History at the Pardee School, was interviewed for Socialter in an article by Fabien Benoit titled Quinn Slobodian : Autour de Trump, un nouvel eugénisme supprime les politiques à destination des plus pauvres, published October 21, 2025. In this interview, Slobodian traces the intellectual roots of today’s far right in a wide-ranging…
Storella on Trump, Greenland, and Europe’s Push for Greater Security Independence
On January 20, 2026, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy, Mark Storella, told Irish TV viewers on RTE’s Prime Time news program that President Trump’s efforts to acquire Greenland are not popular in the United States. Storella said that Trump had dismantled the normal policy process in the U.S. leaving the U.S. with a broken…
Storella Comments on Immigration, Greenland, and Strains on the NATO Alliance
Professor Mark C. Storella, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy at the Pardee School, was interviewed by French TV (France 24 — English service) on January 20, 2026 to discuss the recent developments in United States immigration, and both foreign and economic policies. Storella shared his perspective that President Trump may be overstepping himself in…
Garčević Comments on Greenland’s Role in Larger U.S.–EU Tensions
In an interview for N1 TV, broadcast on January 20, Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, was asked to comment on current developments in global affairs, President Trump’s threats to acquire Greenland, U.S. intervention in Venezuela, and Serbia’s relations with the United States. Garčević highlighted two points…
Hare’s View on Enduring Chavismo Under Trump’s Venezuela Gamble
Master Lecturer Paul Webster Hare penned a new article for the The Conversation, titled Chavismo has adapted before – but can Venezuela’s leftist ideology become US friendly and survive?, covering how the Trump administration’s January 2026 operation to remove Nicolás Maduro from power marked a dramatic turning point in U.S.–Venezuela relations—but not the clean break…
Heine on How Trump’s Latin America Strategy Opens New Doors for China
In a recent Weekend Essay for Bloomberg titled Trump’s Hard Line in Latin America Leaves China Room to Maneuver, published on January 16, 2026, Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Chilean diplomat and professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, argues that the Trump administration’s hard-line approach toward Latin America is reshaping the region’s geopolitical landscape—while…