By Nsikakabasi George | YPFP Rising Expert for Global Health | May 20, 2023 | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons April 7 is celebrated globally as World Health Day, which this year marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization. On one hand, this milestone […]
By Aya Kamil | Rising Expert for the MENA Region | May 16, 2023 | Photo Credit: Flickr For international observers, Brazilian President Lula Ignacio Da Silva’s visit to Abu Dhabi on April 15, didn’t go unnoticed. The discussion agenda with his counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed of […]
By Justin Brightharp | YPFP Rising Expert for Energy | May 16, 2023 | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Global warming and climate change are phenomena of world-wide concern, but in many respects, we are starting to feel their effects on a personal, local level. Climate change and energy […]
Giulia Di Donato | YPFP Rising Expert for Geostrategy and Diplomacy | May 7, 2023 | Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons The G7 Summit is an international forum held annually for the leaders of the International Group of 7 member states (France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, […]
By Noah DeMichele | YPFP Rising Expert for Europe | May 3, 2023 France, Germany, and Poland should coordinate to set the agenda on European security. Since the outbreak of Russia’s war in Ukraine, security has rightfully moved to the top of European policy considerations. Europe has mobilized […]
April 2023 The YPFP Fellowship is a personal and professional leadership development accelerator for emerging talent in foreign policy. Six YPFP Fellows will have a unique opportunity to develop, construct, and implement a strategy and execution for an organization that has significant impact for thousands of young professionals […]
April 2023 Young Professionals in Foreign Policy recently welcomed the newest cohort of its Rising Experts Program. These fifteen up-and-coming experts in their fields, who hail from several different countries and work on global issues and specialties ranging from national security to global health policy, will write an […]
By Miriam Roday | February 1, 2023 | Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, Flickr As a young professional, you have probably experienced pressure to find the “right” internship—one that attracts the attention of future employers and sets you apart from your ambitious peers. Finding that internship, however, is especially […]
By Dan Kent | December 12, 2022 With the release of an updated strategy on international education and engagement by the US Department of Education, the US government has acknowledged the importance of education as a vehicle for advancing its international interests. Specifically, the US higher education sector has long […]
By Lauren McCranie | October 3, 2022 In 1990, Joseph Nye sought to think more holistically about global power dynamics and introduced the concept of soft power: the ability of a country to persuade foreign publics to agree with its policies and stances without explicit force (as opposed to […]
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