The Diplomat is a Tokyo-based, online current affairs magazine covering politics, society and culture in the Asia-Pacific. The magazine, originally a bi-monthly print magazine, was founded by David Llewellyn-Smith, Minh Bui Jones and Sung Lee in 2001. The first edition was published in April 2002, with Jones as the founding editor and Llewellyn-Smith the founding publisher. The magazine was acquired by James Pach in December 2007 who also assumed the role of Executive Publisher.

In August 2009, the magazine moved completely online in order to avoid continued losses in the printed edition of and is currently published from Tokyo. Jason Miks was appointed Editor in September 2009 and Ulara Nakagawa was appointed Associate Editor.

The Diplomat has published interviews with many public figures, including Ali Allawi

Ali Allawi

Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi was Minister of Trade and Minister of Defense in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council from September 2003 until 2004, and subsequently Minister of Finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government between 2005 and 2006. A Shia Muslim, Allawi was part of the...

, Anwar Ibrahim

Anwar Ibrahim

Anwar bin Ibrahim is a Malaysian politician who served as Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 to 1998. Early in his career, Anwar was a close ally of Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad but subsequently emerged as the most prominent critic of Mahathir's government.In 1999, he was sentenced...

, Ian Macfarlane

Ian Macfarlane (economist)

Ian John Macfarlane, AC , Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia , Australia's central bank, from 1996 to 17 September 2006...

, Brent Scowcroft

Brent Scowcroft

Brent Scowcroft, KBE was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National...

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Regular contributors

The magazine includes a mix of guest writers and regular correspondents and analysts currently organized around five blogs: China Power, Flashpoints, New Leaders Forum, Indian Decade?, and ASEAN Beat.

Current China Power contributors include:

• Jason Miks
• Jiang Xueqin
• Mu Chunshan
• Robert Dujarric
• David Cohen

Current Flashpoints contributors include:

• James R. Holmes
• Manpreet Sethi
• Alessio Patalano
• J. Berkshire Miller
• Trefor Moss

Current Indian Decade? contributors include:

• Shreyasi Singh
• Madhav Nalapat
• Sumit Ganguly
• Sanjay Kumar
• Rajeev Sharma

Current ASEAN Beat contributors include:

• Luke Hunt
• Mong Palatino
• Julius Rocas
• Eddie Walsh

Other regular contributors have included:

• Minxin Pei
• Richard Weitz
  Richard Weitz
  Richard Weitz is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute. His current areas of research include defense reform, nuclear nonproliferation, homeland security, and U.S. policies towards Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and the Middle East. Dr...
  
  
• Gordon G. Chang
  Gordon G. Chang
  Gordon G. Chang is a lawyer and author, best known for his book The Coming Collapse of China, in which he argued that the hidden non-performing loans of the "Big Four" Chinese State banks would likely bring down China's financial system and its communist government and China would collapse in 2006...
  
  
• Robert Dreyfuss
  Robert Dreyfuss
  Robert Dreyfuss is a freelance investigative journalist whose work has appeared in The Nation, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The American Prospect, and other progressive publications. His work also appears on line at TomPaine.com....
  
  
• Madhav Das Nalapat
  Madhav Das Nalapat
  Madhav Das Nalapat , holds the UNESCO Peace Chair and is Professor of Geopolitics at Manipal University, an international private university headquartered in Southern India. The former Coordinating Editor of the Times of India, Prof. Nalapat writes extensively on security, policy and international...
  
  
• David McNeill
• Nathan Almirall
• Franco Munoz
• Joshua Kucera
• David Axe
  David Axe
  David Axe is an American military correspondent who writes widely on military life and aspects of current conflicts. Axe is a prolific blogger and has published several books.-Journalism:...
  
  
• Iason Athanasiadis
  Iason Athanasiadis
  Iason Athanasiadis is a writer, photographer, political analyst, and television producer who has contributed to a range of media, including the BBC, al-Khenzeera, and Channel 4...
  
  
• Richard Neville
  Richard Neville (writer)
  Richard Neville is an Australian author and self-described "futurist", who came to fame as a co-editor of the counterculture magazine Oz in Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1960s and early 1970s...
  
  
• Leigh Sales
  Leigh Sales
  Leigh Sales, born 1973 is an author and award-winning journalist and presenter of 7.30 with the Australian national broadcaster, the ABC.-Biography:Sales grew up in Queensland and was a journalist with the Nine Network in Brisbane before joining the ABC...
  
  
• Michael Scheuer
  Michael Scheuer
  Michael F. Scheuer is a former CIA intelligence officer, American blogger, historian, foreign policy critic, and political analyst. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies...
  
  

Partnerships

The Diplomat has entered into formal partnerships with a number of influential public policy and media organizations. One of the most prominent is the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Through a partnership with the Pacific Forum Young Leaders Programme (CSIS), The Diplomat provides insights and analysis from up-and-coming young professionals. The Diplomat also maintains partnerships with Real Clear World, ENN Environmental News Network, The Foreign Policy Centre, The Interpreter, Danwei, China Hush, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, Global Radio News, International Affairs Forum, The Atlantic Sentinel, China Talking Points, War Is Boring, East-West Center, Foreword, and Vivekanda International Foundation.

Rivalry as a news source

In September 2004, the US magazine Time

Time (magazine)

Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

forced the cancellation of advertisements by The Diplomat which emphasised the magazine's Australian perspective by presenting the national flags of the US, the UK, and Australia and logos of Time and The Economist

The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...

below a headline "To which view do you subscribe?"

Awards and recognitions

In December 2010, the online news aggregator RealClearWorld.com cited The Diplomat as one of the top world news sites of 2010.

External links

• The-Diplomat.com homepage of The Diplomat