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The ID team was very pleased this year that “Independent Diplomacy” was recognized by the Harvard Business Review as one of the top ten breakthrough ideas of 2010. 

Our premise was straightforward: as globalization puts all of us at the whim of forces that do not recognize traditional geopolitical borders, the power of states is in decline and the power of non-state political actors is rising.

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I posted this story on the Huffington Post about the alarming consequences of a misinterpreted interview with the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  In 2009, Mrs. Clinton visited Morocco. While there, she gave an interview, unreported here in the US, praising Morocco’s human rights record and appearing to endorse the Bush administration’s policy to support Morocco’s plan for the Western Sahara. Morocco has been illegally occupying the Western Sahara since invading in 1975

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A few months ago, I was asked to speak at the Business Innovation Factory’s BIF-5 Collaborative Innovation Summit in Providence, Rhode Island.  This is the best short-hand, video version of the story of the birth of Independent Diplomat.  

It has since been uploaded onto the TED video site; here’s the link.

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