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U.S. ambassadors to China and Israel and a State Department official discussed America’s global leadership in a conversation hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Topics included engaging …

Antony Blinken, Obama administration deputy secretary of state, spoke at the annual Aspen Institute Security Forum. At the time of the event, Mr. Blinken served as the chief foreign policy a…

Four former U.S. ambassadors to NATO talked about U.S. relations with the international alliance. They discussed the effects of President Trump’s policies on the alliance and the future of d…

Former State and Defense Department officials from the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, as well as Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, talked about.U.S. foreign policy since t…

Former national security advisers talked about America’s global leadership role and the state of the so-called liberal world order. They discussed U.S. relations with its allies as well as t…

Nicholas Burns talked about some of the foreign policy stories that were dominating the news, including the Obama administration’s response to the threat from ISIS* and the group’s beheading…

Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns gave an introduction to the history of U.S. diplomatic efforts as part of a Chautauqua lecture series. He stressed the nee…

Nicholas Burns talked about President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s foreign policy addresses in separate speeches the previous day. The topics ranged from Iran, f…

A panel discussion on how U.S. foreign policy and the presidency have been shaped by the development, use, and spread of nuclear weapons focused on efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weap…

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns is retiring in March 2008.

Nicholas Burns spoke to an audience on US-Afghanistan economic, political, and social relations. Burns claimed that the Bush administration’s mission is to secure a “prosperous, open, st…

Undersecretary Burns delivered a substantive speech to reporters on the comprehensive administration policy toward Iran. Among the topics he discussed were the lack of sustained diplomatic c…

Undersecretary Burns spoke to reporters about Secretary Rice’s November 22 meeting with the Bosnian Tri-Presidency. He discussed a renewed commitment to the Balkans, achievements since the s…