The evening was mostly about the music, but an international jazz show organized by Global Atlanta hit notes of hospitality, diplomacy and the growth of Atlanta as an international city. […]
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Commentary: Taiwan Offers Peace Plan for East and South China Seas
Recent territorial disputes in the South China Sea have put mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia at odds. As an important stakeholder in the region, the U.S. […]
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Experts Skeptical Over Taiwan’s South China Sea Peace Plan
Taiwan is accustomed to straddling fault lines between great powers, and it’s aiming to become a more productive mediator as Asian territorial disputes heat up, inflaming security tensions between the U.S. and […]
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Visa Outage Leaves Travelers in Limbo
An outage in the computer system handling the process of U.S. visas globally has left many international travelers in limbo. The State Department said in a statement that the outage […]
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Ireland and Public Diplomacy: “Still Here/Here Still”
lIn a world fraught with local, national and international fissures, animosities, and violent conflict, the Republic of Ireland stands far above the fray as a stellar example of how a country’s verve for the written and spoken […]
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World Affairs Council Re-elects UPS CEO as Chairman
United Parcel Service CEO David Abney has been re-elected as the chairman of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta, the organization announced after its June 15 board meeting. Newly elected […]
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Reed Opens New Immigrant Affairs Office
Mayor Kasim Reed on Tuesday officially opened Atlanta’s new immigrant affairs office, which aims to help better integrate the city’s foreign-born population with the local community. Behind only Baltimore, Atlanta […]
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Israeli Consul Reflects on Five Years in Atlanta
Israeli Consul General Opher Aviran will have a full suitcase when he leaves Atlanta at the end of July. In what amounts to an exit interview with the Atlanta Jewish Times, the country’s top diplomat for the Southeast points […]
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After Dispute, Atlanta Loses Nobel Summit
In the end, a city that hangs its hat on being a place for tolerance and dialogue couldn’t work out a deal to keep a summit of Nobel Peace Prize […]
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Audio Interview: Costa Rican President on Poverty, Democracy and Security Without an Army
Note: Listen to the full interview on the Global Atlanta SoundCloud profile here. Luis Guillermo Solis is a rare breed: a politician content with one term presiding over the most powerful […]