When Diplomacy, Development, and Defense Worked Together

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In the Season Two premiere of Global Development Interrupted , host Leah Petit is joined by Chris Wurst , a former Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State and the creator and host of the podcast SoftPower/Ful Stories . Chris spent more than two decades working in public diplomacy and communications, where he helped bridge the gap between data and lived experience by telling the human stories behind American engagement abroad. That perspective gave him a firsthand view of how the three Ds of diplomacy, development, and defense once worked together in practice. He reflects on moments when agencies brought distinct but complementary expertise to the table, including the…