The BDA Currents: Where Diplomacy Meets Business, is the Brussels Diplomatic Academy’s annual report covering the wider geopolitical and other factors influencing and affecting the world of diplomacy, international relations and global business. The journal focuses on issues of topical interest around the centers of global power, influence and importance, including the continents of Europe and Africa, the Middle East, China, India & Asia, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States and the trans-Atlantic relationship between the United States of America and Europe. Issues are discussed through the multi-faceted lens of diplomacy, geopolitics, global power, international relations, foreign policy, global finance, business and environmental sustainability. Sitting at the heart of the European Union, the Brussels Diplomatic Academy (BDA) provides academic programs and professional services tailored to the needs of diplomats and business persons in Belgium and further afield, and encompasses a wide range of geographic & thematic areas of expertise.