KRALEV ON DIPLOMACY
Only at The Washington Times: Nicholas Kralev discusses diplomacy around the world.
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Americans are apparently getting tired of their country's global involvement -- at least more so than they have been in four decades.
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One would think that Russian gay activists would be elated by the new statue of American poet and gay icon Walt Whitman in Moscow -- and if that wasn't enough, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was on hand to unveil it Wednesday morning.
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The Obama administration signaled Wednesday that it might agree to bilateral talks with North Korea as an incentive for Pyongyang to return to six-country negotiations on its nuclear program.
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Russia continues its efforts to divide the West and NATO in order to limit American influence in Europe, senior Obama administration officials said Monday.
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Tens of thousands of State Department employees around the world received a surprise in their e-mail boxes late Tuesday: The first direct message from their boss ever.
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Two international consulting firms founded in 2001 by the Clinton administration's top foreign-policy officials, Madeleine K. Albright and Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, have decided to merge.
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The Obama administration issued a rare call Monday for China to invalidate an order issued last week that requires all computers sold in the country to haveGreen Dam internet filtering software.
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The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), the diplomats' union, recognized three of its members Thursday for "constructive dissent" with U.S. policy.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered a complete review of the agency's practices for granting security clearances.
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On the day of the "American Idol" finale last month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asked Americans to send donations via text messaging to Pakistani refugees fleeing heavy fighting between government and Taliban forces in the country's Swat Valley.
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The Obama administration confirmed Monday that it will soon ease some restrictions on travel to Cuba by Americans and on the remittances they send to relatives on the island.
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The Obama administration on Tuesday reversed yet another Bush administration policy by deciding to seek a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has been criticized repeatedly for being too hard on Israel while ignoring abuses in Sudan, Syria, Iran, Cuba and other countries.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton confirmed Monday that the U.S. government is no longer using the Bush administration's term "war on terror."
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva Friday with a special present: a reset button inside a gift box with a ribbon.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton just finished yet another town hall meeting -- her first in Europe as the nation's chief diplomat. The participants were delighted to see and hear her, even though she was more than a half-hour late.
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