Monthly Archives: January 2009
January 30, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign (USGLC) released the following statement from Executive Director Liz Schrayer on the Obama Administration’s commitment to elevating diplomacy and development: “The U.S. Global Leadership Campaign and its 400 business and NGO members around the country applaud the swift confirmation of James Steinberg as [...]
On Wednesday, January 21, by an overwhelming vote of 94 to 2, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to serve as the nation’s 67th Secretary of State. In her welcoming address to State Department personnel the next day, Secretary Clinton reinforced her and President Barack Obama’s commitment to increase funding for [...]
By ROBERT B. ZOELLICK New York Times January 22, 2009 WITHIN his first 100 days, President Obama will attend his inaugural global summit meeting: an April gathering of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations in London. The president, with bipartisan backing in Congress, should send an audacious signal of hope. Starting with the [...]
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF New York Times January 21, 2009 At the end of Bill Clinton’s presidency in January 2001, the Web site The Onion declared: “Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is over.” That was supposed to be satire, but in retrospect it proved a shrewd analysis. One measure of the bleak [...]
By Joseph S. Nye Jr. January 21, 2009
By JOSEPH S. NYE Jr. Los Angeles Times January 21, 2009 Hard and soft power used together can give the country the tools to lead. President Obama reminded us Tuesday that “our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities [...]
By Rep. Mac Thornberry Special to Roll Call January 16, 2009, 2:38 p.m. Secretary of State nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pledges to get the State Department “firing on all cylinders” and to renew U.S. leadership through a “smart power” mix of diplomacy and defense were welcome beginnings to her tenure as America’s top diplomat. As [...]
Joint Chiefs chairman makes case for non-military solutions By Julian E. Barnes Los Angeles Times; January 13, 2009 The country’s top uniformed officer said Monday that the Defense Department should be ready to tell civilian leaders when military force is not the best response — and be prepared to transfer resources to other agencies during [...]
January 13, 2009 U.S. Global Leadership Campaign Applauds Major Commitment to Rebuilding State Department and USAID Resources and Capacity Washington, DC – The U.S. Global Leadership Campaign released the following statement from Executive Director Liz Schrayer on today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the nomination of Senator Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State: [...]
By John F. Kerry January 13, 2009 AS SENATOR Hillary Clinton appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today for confirmation hearings as secretary of state, the foreign policy agenda of the US government is confronting many challenges. We are engaged in wars in different stages in Afghanistan and Iraq. Global climate change represents a [...]
