Strobe Talbott
Strobe Talbott
Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott IIIis an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001...
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It was clearly an act of terrorism, ... My understanding from the few minutes I have been on the ground is that our embassy and the Russian authorities are working very closely together to try to get to the bottom of this.
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These are tough issues, ... It's a work in progress.
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There will be specific arrangement for division of labor within that but nothing that would bear any resemblance to partitioning or dividing Kosovo up into different national sectors,
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As Secretary (of State Madeleine) Albright and others have said, once there has been a complete withdrawal, the international community might consider permitting the return of some official Yugoslav personnel to perform very clearly specified and very carefully circumscribed and supervised functions within Kosovo,
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It's a tough call for the president. It's a brave and correct decision on his part and not without risks.
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This is part of an ongoing series of consultations we have had with the Russian government and we have a very broad and deep and important agenda, ... I am sure the topic of Bosnia will come up. Russia and the United States are working closely together to try to bring peace to the area. But we have a lot of other things to talk about.
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How exactly that's defined, in terms of command structure and that kind of thing, is something that we are working on.
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The Initiative aims to analyze the issues facing China and the problems and opportunities that China's rise presents to other nations, ... The Initiative will make recommendations to policy- makers on these challenges, as we seek to understand -- and promote others' understanding of -- the internal transformation of China and its emergence as a major factor in the new international system.
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In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell
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All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.
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Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.
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In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.