The former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, speaking about Maduro’s plea to lift sanctions on Venezuela, says that “the U.S. wants to help, but the Biden administration wants to avoid partnering with such an unsavory regime.” Ambassador Duddy is the director of Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and a fellow of DUCIGS' Rethinking Diplomacy Program.

The Ernest Gellner Lecture 2021 was given by Duke Professor Prasenjit Duara on 'Nationalism and the Crisis of Global Modernity' on 5th April 2021.

The uncontrolled reentry of a Chinese rocket last week shows the need for an update of space diplomacy, write DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy fellows W. Robert Pearson and Benjamin Schmitt in Foreign Policy . Now is the time for building out international norms around new activities of government and commercial players in both deep space and low earth orbit.

A growing number of transnational problems over the next decade will necessitate the expertise from practitioners of science and technology, writes our Rethinking Diplomacy team, urging the Biden Administration to appoint more scientists to the senior ranks of the State Department. Leaders of the National Science Policy Network co-authored this policy analysis.