German students grill Powell - San Francisco Chronicle
Powell, visiting Germany for a conference on Afghanistan, took time out of his schedule Thursday to answer questions for more than an hour from a group of high school students living in what was once part of East Berlin...About 100 students were selected for their command of English, and they showed it. Their poise and knowledge of U.S. politics would put most high school students in the United States to shame.
America's Other Army: Inside the Foreign Service
After conducting 260 interviews in the United States and at 20 American diplomatic posts throughout the world, a Washington journalist has produced a searching and unprecedented examination of the U.S. Department of State and the American Foreign Service. With the generous permission of the Washington Times,
American Diplomacy has just posted the first three segments of this eight-part series.
How Kerry's foreign policy might look - IHT
William Pfaff, writing for the International Herald Tribune, ponders what a Kerry foreign policy might look like. He suggests that, "John Kerry, on the record, has had mostly conventional things to say about foreign policy. One rarely survives in Washington without going along with the essentials of the conventional 'story' America tells itself about what is going on in the world, and about what the U.S. role should be."
Foreign policy disappoints Hauser - The Daily Orange
Hauser, chairwoman of the International Peace Academy that advises the United Nations on global conflicts, spoke Tuesday night in a half-full Hendricks Chapel. The speech was entitled "The U.S. Role in a Troubled Middle East," and Hauser's message that the Middle East is indeed troubled was crystal clear.
Will U.S. Policy Backfire in Centreal Asia? - Muslim Uzbekistan
American engagement with the Central Asian states – key allies in the “war on terror” - is being misrepresented and exploited by regional governments, whose actions are fuelling instability in the region, local and international analysts believe. Authoritarian leaders especially in Uzbekistan, the main player, continue to ignore pleas for change in their human rights practices. They are misreading – sometimes wilfully – the signals sent by the United States that political reform is important, too, and continuing in the belief that as valued partners they can do pretty much as they like.
What Do Europeans Like and Dislike about the United States? - Axis of Logic
New five-country survey of Western European adults shows few dislike Americans or the United States but most dislike President Bush and his foreign policies.
NATO Ambassador Burns on Expanding the Alliance of Democracies - State
This op-ed column by U.S. Ambassador to NATO R. Nicholas Burns, was published in the Wall Street Journal March 29th.
President Bush Welcomes Seven Nations to the NATO Alliance - White House
This is the White House text of remarks by the President on the enlargement of NATO delivered from the South Lawn.
Forum to focus on U.S. foreign policy - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Are we Safer? A Debate on the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy" will be the focus of this year's George F. Kennan Forum on International Issues. It will be held from 4 to 6 p.m., April 22, at the Pabst Theater, 144 E. Wells St. in Milwaukee.
