Jackson School professor Emeritus and Asia expert Donald Hellman gives his analysis to KING 5 News on what President’s Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the U.S. State Department might mean for the U.S. role in the world. “The separation of defense and diplomacy is an artificial one,” he said, describing the multiple components of an embassy

Donald C. Hellmann is a professor in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Political Science. Hellmann has been a member of the University of Washington faculty since 1967. Since 1994, he has been director of the University’s APEC Study Center and from 1994–2000 he served as chair of the US Consortium