Nicholas Kralev is the founding executive director of the Washington International Diplomatic Academy, an independent organization that provides practical professional training in diplomacy. A former Financial Times and Washington Times correspondent, for more than a decade he witnessed the conduct of American diplomacy while accompanying four U.S. secretaries of state on their travels around the world -- Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright. His books include "Diplomatic Tradecraft" and "America's Other Army," among others.
