Clinton says don’t give up on Mideast peace, John Kerry goes to Sudan, and one writer asks, “is there any way to fix Pakistan” in this week’s Friday roundup.
Yesterday, over a hundred community leaders in Florida attended an event hosted by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, featuring University of Miami President and USGLC Florida State Advisory Committee co-chair Donna E. Shalala, on the importance of a smart power approach to America’s foreign policy and how people [...]
USGLC Chairman Dan Glickman is in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch this morning arguing the “U.S. can’t afford to skimp on development.” His letter in response to an editorial on “rebooting foreign aid” lays out the case that “more and better” development is in both the national security and economic interests of the country.
Last week, the Administration released the progress report citing the importance of integrating climate considerations into development programming. The report called for a “scaling up and dissemination of best practices to help developing countries reduce their vulnerability to climate change.”
In recent weeks, Melinda Gates has been speaking out on the successes the international community has made in fighting global poverty in the last decade, from the declining number of child deaths globally to advances made against AIDS and other infectious diseases that have racked the developing world.
At a Stimson Center event today panelists highlighted the difficulties on national security budget appropriations and described the uphill battle ahead in securing the funding to ensure an effectively and well-rounded approach to U.S. Foreign Policy.
Development, diplomacy, and defense are taking center stage in administration talks with NATO to define a path to success in Afghanistan.
President Obama recounts his lessons learned since taking office, Secretary Clinton urges unity in Bosnia, Melinda Gates talks about advances made in the poorest parts of the world, The Stimson Center fights back on the defense budget, and more.
With changes at the National Security Council last week, all eyes will be on the implementation of the new Directive on Global Development. General Jones has been a strong supporter of elevating development and diplomacy alongside defense, and was even a member of the USGLC’s National Security Advisory Council before going to the White House.
Is the Obama administration retreating from its nuclear non-proliferation promise, is Obama an anti-colonialist, the State Department gets its Deputy Assistant Secretaries, the U.S. scores poorly on transparency of foreign aid spending, and more.
