AAD: American Diplomacy at 250

A co-hosted program of the American Academy of Diplomacy, the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies.

Diplomacy is vital to the American experiment. Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, the American Revolution would likely have been lost without the diplomacy that inspired critical foreign support. While soldiers fight wars, diplomats — with rare exceptions — are the ones who must end them and forge peace.

Diplomats are increasingly confronted with challenges that neither force nor any single nation can resolve. To consider how diplomacy has changed, and not changed, during the first 250 years of American history, the Ambassador’s Forum will bring together a distinguished panel of diplomats.