Welcome to The Diplomat’s Cabinet!

Foreign policy, security, human rights, equality, but also AI, defence, journalism... Welcome to the new mind palace

This is the first edition of a major rebranding and a new business strategy that I'm implementing in the newsletter. I've spent the first few months of 2025 (over)thinking and strategising about where I want to go next, and the train has already left the station. More information about what I'm doing will be shared here, on social media and on the website.

For my fellow gender detectives, worry not: The Gender Diplomat remains a center piece of The Diplomat’s Cabinet and the first episodes of the podcast are gender-related. The project is simply expanding, I’m broadening the scope of conversations and angles, and I'm reintroducing myself.

It's a pleasure to have you on The Cabinet!

The Gender Diplomat asks:
Is Feminist Foreign Policy built to last?

I recently sat down with Bruna Soares from OPEFI (Brazil's Feminist Foreign Policy Observatory) — who is a specialist in Feminist Foreign Policy, researcher at PUC-Rio and a good friend of mine — and here’s the uncomfortable truth: For all the talk about feminist foreign policy, most governments aren’t doing the hard work to make it stick.