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Los Angeles Practices Diplomacy Without a Foreign Ministry
Original: Los Angeles Has No Foreign Ministry—Yet It Practices Diplomacy Every Day
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy argues that Los Angeles, despite lacking any formal foreign ministry, conducts diplomacy on a daily basis. The piece highlights how the city's global ties—through trade, culture, diaspora communities and international engagement—function as a form of everyday diplomacy carried out by a major global city rather than a nation-state.
Why now: Growing interest in city-level diplomacy and how global cities like Los Angeles act internationally without state institutions
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- Los Angeles Has No Foreign Ministry—Yet It Practices Diplomacy Every Day · USC Center on Public Diplomacy |
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