Elizabeth Shackelford

Elizabeth Shackelford is a foreign affairs columnist for the baiduhai and a distinguished lecturer with the Dickey Center at Dartmouth College. She was previously a U.S. diplomat and is the author of "The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age," winner of the Douglas Dillon Book Award.

U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit return fire on Taliban positions near the town of Garmser in Helmand province of Afghanistan in 2008.

Op-ed: Ending war doesn’t have to be this hard

April 22, 2021 at 2:08 p.m.

Since President Biden announced that he will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the public and political debate has focused on whether or not now is the...

The CMA CGM Argentina container ship arrives at PortMiami on April 6, 2021, in Miami. The port announced the 1,200-foot vessel set a new record for the largest container ship to ever call at a Florida port.

Op-ed: What a container ship stranded in the Suez Canal showed us about globalization

April 8, 2021 at 4:44 p.m.

The Ever Given had been stuck in Suez sand for nearly a week when my neighbor asked if we were sure the giant container ship hadn't been sabotaged. It seemed...

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