THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JUNE 2025 5 30 Advancing U.S. Economic Interests Overseas in an Era of Rising Tariffs When tariff policy is a primary tool of economic statecraft, U.S. diplomats have a unique role to play. By Daniel Crocker June 2025 Volume 102, No. 4 FOCUS ON ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY 35 Fortifying Minerals Diplomacy: Four Nations, Four Solutions The Quad—an alliance of the U.S., India, Japan, and Australia—is emerging as a strategic force in critical minerals diplomacy while countering China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific. By Mahnaz Khan 23 What We’ve Lost: Firsthand Accounts from the Field By Members of the Foreign Service Community COVER STORY 39 FAS: Agricultural Economic Diplomacy in Action Agricultural exports account for more than 20 percent of American farm income, and the Foreign Agricultural Service keeps them growing. By Evan Mangino 45 Cold War Insights for Evidence-Driven Tech Competition Today The traditional approach of deploying export controls may have sufficed in the past. But will it prove effective against more innovative foes like the People’s Republic of China? By Darrow Godeski Merton 39
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