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Diplomatic Affairs

Jan 3, 2010: Japan Needs Diplomatic Retooling In Wake of The Rise Of China
Comments: 0 | Categories: Diplomatic Affairs
“With the rise of China and other economies in Asia, Japan's position as a major power is growing increasingly shaky,” asserts Japan Times staff writer Masimi Ito in the first of a series of articles on Japan’s “looming crisis” According...

Jan 3, 2010: Namik Tan Is Turkey’s Next Ambassador To The U.S.
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“Ambassador Namik Tan will become the next Turkish ambassador” to the United States,” according to Today’s Zaman columnist Ali H. Aslan. He replaces Nabi Sensoy. See “Ambassador Tan: The right choice for Washington.” By the way, Today’s Zaman is a...

Dec 28, 2009: Lee Hamilton: Tensions Between U.S., Japan Won’t Alter Relationship
Comments: 0 | Categories: Diplomatic Affairs , U.S. Foreign Policy
“Despite recent tension, the U.S.-Japanese security alliance is, and will remain, a fixture of the international order, American foreign policy, and Japanese foreign policy,” maintains former U.S. Representative Lee H. Hamilton, currently the director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center...

May 18, 2009: A Good Roundup of Opinion on Ambassador John Huntsman
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U.S. President Barack Obama’s May 16, 2009, announcement that he had appointed John Huntsman, Jr., Utah’s Republican governor, ambassador to China generated a diversity of opinion from bloggers. The Blogometer, “a daily report from The Hotline taking the temperature of...

Apr 27, 2009: U.S., Cuban Diplomats Hold Second Round of Talks
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During the April 27, 2009, Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State, spokesman Robert Wood, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs , took questions from reporters about U.S.-Cuba relations, among other things. U. S. and Cuban...

Apr 27, 2009: Rep. Barbara Lee: "’Our Current Policy Towards Cuba Just Hasn’t Worked’
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“By any objective standard, our current policy toward Cuba just hasn’t worked,” writes U.S. Representative Barbara Lee of California’s Ninth Congressional District in an April 27, 2009, post at Politico. “It was clear to me when I first traveled to...

Apr 19, 2009: Peter Galbraith: President Obama Has the ‘Luxury of Being Pragmatic…’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books , Diplomatic Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
Peter W. Galbraith, United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, offers an assessment of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy initiatives in an interview with foreign affairs columnist and global educator John C. Bersia. See...

Apr 19, 2009: ‘Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Barack Obama , Books , Diplomatic Affairs
Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist Eduardo Hughes Galeano’s book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, which President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela gave to U.S. President Barack Obama as a gesture of friendship and...

Apr 8, 2009: Will Turkey Become a Key Player in U.S. Middle East Strategy?
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Patrick Wrigley, an Istanbul based freelance journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey, Asserts in an April 8, 2009, article at Asia Times Online that, “The arrival of United States President Obama in Ankara [Turkey] on Sunday [April 5, 2009]signaled the growing...

Apr 7, 2009: Obama to Visit Mexico, Attend Summit of the Americas
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U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Mexico April 16 and 17, 2009, for talks with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on a variety of issues. Mr. Obama will leave Mexico on April 17 and fly to Port of Spain,...