Tag Archives: diplomacy

Rejecting Hamas

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Lee

Here’s a bit of good news from earlier. As you may have seen, reports have been swirling about a plan by Obama to open direct talks with Hamas. Those reports are evidently groundless, as a statement from Brooke Anderson was … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged Barack Obama, Brooke Anderson, diplomacy, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Terrorism | Leave a comment

Implications of the Pletka Purge

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Lee

Roland picks up an interesting piece by Jacob Heilbrunn for the National Interest, describing an ongoing purge of neoconservative intellectuals from the American Enterprise Institute, allegedly instigated by Vice President Danielle Pletka. So far Michael Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Military Matters | Tagged 1990s, 2004, AEI, AEI purge, American Enterprise Institute, anti-semitism, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, conflict resolution, constitutional democracy, cynicism, Danielle Pletka, democracy, diplomacy, Edward Shirley, Egypt, foreign policy, geostrategy, idealism, intellectuals, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jacob Heilbrunn, Joshua Muravchik, just war doctrine, M1 Abrams, machtpolitik, Michael Ledeen, Middle East, military, Muslim, neocons, neoconservatism, neoconservative, November, October, Pletka, Pletka Purge, purge, realism, realpolitiker, Republican establishment, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Richard Nixon, rogue states, Saudi Arabia, security policy, tanks, The National Interest, United States | 2 Comments

The New Russian Diplomacy of Profanity

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Lee

Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reportedly went berserk on David Miliband in phone discussions over the Georgia war. Apparently he was raving, shouting obscenities, and ridiculing Miliband’s knowledge of history. There’s something incredibly deranged about that government. They’ve taken the traditional … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged Britain, David Miliband, diplomacy, foreign secretary, Georgia, History, invasion, Putinism, Russia, Sergei Lavrov, UK, United Kingdom, war | Leave a comment

Georgia Cuts Loose

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Lee

Saakashvili has finally severed all Georgian diplomatic ties with Russia. A bit overdue, I must say. Meanwhile, Putin, in his ongoing effort to legitimize the Russian invasion of Georgia, again compared his country’s actions to the NATO intervention against Serbia … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Brussels, diplomacy, Europe, Georgia, Putin, Russia, Saakashvili, Serbia, South Ossetia, United States, White House | Leave a comment

160,000 Deaths

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Lee

At least 160,000 deaths in the suppression of Chechen independence by Russia. Just a reminder for when someone tries to set Russia up as the great defender of South Ossetia’s right of national self-determination. There’s a diplomatic argument for that, … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged Chechen, Chechnya, diplomacy, Georgia, independence, nationalism, self-determination, South Ossetia, war | Leave a comment

China & Russia: Models and Modalities

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Lee

Francis Fukuyama chats with Robert Kagan on a number of interesting things: Flash | WMV | MP3 (via: The American Interest). Of immediate interest is Kagan’s notion that the the emergence of global multipolarity induces an imperfect, baseline bipolarity of … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged authoritarianism, bipolarity, Burma, Calvin Coolidge, China, China Model, Cuban Revolution, diplomacy, eastern, flash, Francis Fukuyama, imperial, internationalism, Kremlin, Lenin, Mao, Moscow, mp3, multipoliarity, nationalism, Nikolai Bukharin, oligarchy, power, revolution, Robert Kagan, Russia, russocentrism, sinocentrism, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, tibet, Trotsky, Tsarist, unification, vassal states, video, western, Zimbabwe | 3 Comments

Metternich would be proud

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Lance

Obama makes his first effort at diplomacy with the Palestinians. The response: F- – – Washington, f- – – Obama and f- – – you. I feel encouraged, how about you?

Posted in Foreign affairs, Humor, Lance's Page | Tagged Barack Obama, diplomacy, foreign policy, Humor, Palestinians | Leave a comment

Her Tenure Was a Monumental Failure

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Joshua Foust

Isn’t it great when our Chief Diplomat doesn’t really see the need for diplomacy?

Posted in Around the Web, Foreign affairs | Tagged diplomacy, Iran, rice | 11 Comments

Negotiation Is Scary

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Joshua Foust

I’m no fan of Obama—his social programs are enough to make him a no-go in my book—but much of the hoopla over things like his foreign policy are ludicrous. Take the “negotiate without preconditions” bit. Is that really so outrageous? … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Foreign affairs | Tagged diplomacy, foreign policy, Obama | 12 Comments

Sexual Diplomacy

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Lee

Pretty funny. “They handed Eve the toughest assignment of her career — to stop a holy war in the Mideast. As usual, she took it lying down.”

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged 1970s, book cover, design, diplomacy, holy war, image, Mecca, pulp, sexual | Leave a comment

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