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But why shouldn’t America’s top diplomat have significant influence over military matters?
While Johnson has some rhetorical skill – which he has been using with increasing vigor to whip up support for a “hard Brexit” – the general view is that he was a hopeless diplomat, always preferring a cheap joke to a serious brief.
“Who else is in a position to say such things to Iran’s president?” asked a top Brazilian diplomat by way of justifying a dialogue that has been sharply criticized by Brazil’s Jewish community, which is emphatically opposed to Lula’s proposed trip to Teheran, scheduled for May.
The Sources of Chinese ConductBEIJING – Six decades ago, the American diplomat George Kennan wrote an article, “The Sources of SovietConduct,” that galvanized American and world opinion, which soon hardened into the rigid postures of the Cold War.
As the American diplomat Harlan Cleveland once asked, “How will we get everybody in on the act, and still get some action?”
Moreover, an Iranian diplomat in Oslo, Mohammed Reza Heydari, resigned in protest against the regime’s behavior after the December riots.
A high-level German diplomat reportedly dismissed Spain’s 6.5-7% interest rates recently, on the grounds that Spain borrowed at nearly the same rates in the 1990’s.
She did what any good – and, in her case, superb – diplomat should do: maintain relations with both sides and try to find a way forward.
And yet he got the parties together by developing trust, which is the coin of the realm for an effective diplomat.
As one top American diplomat put it, “The last worry I have when I wake up at three in the morning is that Europe is becoming too strong.”
As one experienced diplomat put it, “if you’re trying to negotiate an exchange-rate deal with 20 countries or a bailout of Mexico, as in the early Clinton days, with 20 countries, that’s not easy.
Moreover, handshakes were exchanged by the two countries’ foreign ministers, when John Kerry and Javad Zarif, joined by the European Union’s top diplomat, Catherine Ashton, held a formal meeting to organize the upcoming nuclear negotiations in Geneva.
"Cubans are still endeared by that," said one Western diplomat.
A former Turkish diplomat in Iran described the business climate in stark terms: “it is as if Iranians prefer a lose/lose outcome to a win/win one in their dealings with foreign partners.”
Any diplomat must be purposeful in a negotiation on behalf of his or her country, which means being clear-eyed about the desired outcome and the best way to achieve it.
As Secretary-General, Ban has lived up to his self-styled vision of being the consummate diplomat, and has made some important gains in tackling the UN's bureaucratic bloat as well as dealing with the Middle East.
He is a diplomat by training, a brilliant linguist with a first-class policy mind, who in government won plaudits internationally for his leading role in the G20 response to the global financial crisis of 2008, his efforts on climate change, and his historic apology to Australia’s indigenous peoples.
India’s Deadly AirNEW DELHI – A friend of mine, a diplomat returning home after less than three years’ service in India, was asked at his exit medical examination how many packs a day he smoked.
As the former diplomat Thomas Christensen points out in his recent book The China Challenge, China “has major incentives to avoid unnecessary conflict.”
The OAS will have to decide on March 24 whether to re-elect Chilean diplomat and politician José Miguel Insulza as its Secretary General.
Though he has since backed away from that pledge, he has just appointed a climate-change-denying, anti-science diplomat as foreign minister.
Lauder may be a worldly diplomat, but he is also ready to fight.
Latin America Between Kennan and ObamaBUENOS AIRES – The late American diplomat and strategist George Kennan is remembered as the creator of the doctrine of “containment,” which formed the centerpiece of the United States’ policy for waging the Cold War.
Such a person will be a dishonest leader, ideologue, or diplomat in any circumstance.
I still remember the warning uttered by a top US diplomat in Strasbourg in the early 1990’s, on the eve of the Balkan wars.
Take the story, perhaps apocryphal, of an Indian diplomat showing a map of South Asia to Stalin.
"India is a very big country," Stalin observed, and then pointing to Sri Lanka said, "What is the name of this little Indian island?""That is not an Indian island, sir," the diplomat replied, "it is a sovereign nation."
The EU’s special representative in the South Caucasus, Swedish diplomat Peter Semneby, played a crucial role in bringing back Imedi TV in time to restore media balance ahead of the presidential election – possibly the first time that the EU took a leading role in seminal political events in Georgia.
That is not something even the most polite US diplomat can welcome.
An Indian diplomat in Damascus a few years ago told me that the only publicly displayed portraits as big as those of then-President Hafez al-Assad were of the Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
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