{"id":10079,"date":"2026-09-06T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/news\/maria-popova-unbelievable-adventures-of-americans-in-shuttle-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:31:03","slug":"maria-popova-unbelievable-adventures-of-americans-in-shuttle-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/news\/maria-popova-unbelievable-adventures-of-americans-in-shuttle-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Popova &#8211; Unbelievable Adventures of Americans in Shuttle Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a new article published in Policy Magazine, Maria Popova, Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Montreal and Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, examines the shuttle diplomacy conducted by American envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff between Moscow and Kyiv. She highlights the absence of genuine concessions from Russia and explains how the Kremlin seeks to project an image of strength to influence negotiations and weaken Western support for Ukraine. She also underscores the limits of the Trump administration\u2019s leverage over Kyiv and the persistent obstacles to achieving lasting peace.<\/p>\r\n\ud83d\udc49 Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policymagazine.ca\/unbelievable-adventures-of-americans-in-shuttle-diplomacy\/\">here<\/a>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new article published in Policy Magazine, Maria Popova, Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Montreal and Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, examines the shuttle diplomacy conducted by American envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff between Moscow and Kyiv. She highlights the absence of genuine concessions from Russia and explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10080,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10079\/revisions\/10080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}