Occupation: Diplomat Birth: July 28, 1951
The U.S. position on Jerusalem was not the reason why there hasn't been progress towards peace. The reason is that both the Israeli government and th….
Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker..
Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation..
States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves..
I think what Mr. Trump has made clear is that he would not undertake optional wars, what I have called wars of choice, a la, say Iraq in 2003 or Liby….
China likes the idea of sovereign rights when it comes to organizing their politics as they see fit, and their economics. But they may grudgingly com….
The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II, 25-plus years after the end of th….
Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem is the most se….
If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or putting….
I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interacti….
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy..
Well, we ought to make clear to everybody that the next Korean War, if one were ever to happen, is going to be the last Korean War because it's going….
I think it was going to be hard to work with Russians on Syria. There is some potential overlap between the U.S. and Russia in that the Russians don'….
You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority..
Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to ad….
Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected..
Donald Trump is much more suspicious of international institutions; much more skeptical of the contributions that America's traditional allies have m….
Television was our chief tool in selling our policy..
I think Hillary Clinton is more suspicious, clearly tougher on Russian policy in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria; more willing to support sanctions; not agai….
We ought to be doing much more in North America. We are on the cusp of an energy revolution. And we do need to be doing more at home. The biggest nat….
Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change..