The Future of Diplomacy Project seeks a paid Research Assistant for an initiative entitled, “The American Diplomacy Project: A Foreign Service for the 21st Century.” The Research Assistant will assist the Project leadership with research for the final report and help plan and organize the 3-4 small conferences leading up to the launch of the report. The workload will vary at different stages of the project. It will average 5-15 hours per week.

During a testy joint press conference at the NATO summit in London yesterday, President Donald Trump and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, argued openly over how the 70-year-old alliance should handle Russia, the Islamic State, and Turkey. When interacting with allied leaders, Trump’s predecessors have generally followed a golden rule: Disagreements with friends are okay—but only behind the scenes, not in public.

Ambassador Nicholas Burns giving a speech on "Restoring the Transatlantic Relationship" to the Senat Der Wirtschaft in Munich, Germany on November 30, 2019.

Professor Nicholas Burns discusses President Trump's impeachment hearings on BBC World News.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, in partnership with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, announced today the expansion of its Economic Diplomacy Initiative (EDI).

Nicholas Burns Speaks with Wolf Blitzer on CNN about career diplomats appearing in the first public hearings.

As part of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship’s (PETR) event series, Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, moderated a conversation on the crisis in the transatlantic relationship with Ambassador Victoria Nuland, Senior Fellow on the Future of Diplomacy Project and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and Ambassador Philippe Etienne, Ambassador of France to the United States and diplomatic adviser to the President of the French Republic. 

The moral of this long, circuitous and often perplexing story is that a nation can only be effective in its foreign policy if it is grounded at home-- stable socially, self-confident and united in its foundational values.

This week, Americans will hear directly from the officials who witnessed the Trump- Ukraine scandal as it unfolded.

Nicholas Burns speaks with John Berman from CNN's New Day on how Giuliani's back-channel diplomacy is complicating U.S. foreign policy.