Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org Good Governance Paper No. 23: Rebuild and Renew the Diplomatic Corps November 2, 2020 U.S. national security seems at a crossroads. Tectonic geopolitical change is happening beneath us. Technological advances threaten to outpace our rules and capabilities. Traditional bulwarks of multilateral institutions and alliances are neglected and often outmoded. And our bedrock institutions at home increasingly are revealed to be fragile and beleaguered.