Dan Spokojny

Want to guess what percent of US career diplomats have studied ANY foreign policy or international relations?

I'd love to see whether studying IR or FP has any impact on one's promotion prospects at the @StateDept. 🤷‍♂️

(from a 2015 report from @AcadofDiplomacy)

Can the State Department integrate promising new technology without undermining the essential human aspects of diplomacy? I take on this question in my new article in the Foreign Service Journal.

Wow, the @WhiteHouse is NOT messing around. (This is from a new report called "Blueprint for the Use of Social and Behavioral Science to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking")

📣Big news📣 The U.S. Department of State is getting an FFRDC. This is an idea fp21 first proposed two years ago, and represents a step forward in our mission to make foreign policy "less art and more science."

open.substack.com/pub/fp21/p/a-h…

Foreign Policy Expertise Requires a Culture of Evidence open.substack.com/pub/fp21/p/for…