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The crisis over Ukraine has all but frozen official communication between the United States and Russia. The Russian reaction to the political upheaval in Kiev — the absorption of Crimea, and the armed intervention in eastern Ukraine — and the American responses to those actions have brought about a near-complete breakdown in normal and regular dialogue between Washington and Moscow. Relations between the two capitals have descended into attempts by each side to pressure the other, tit-for-tat actions, shrill propaganda statements, and the steady diminution of engagement between the two governments and societies.
Reports from the NATO summit meeting that ended in Newport, Wales, on Friday indicate that the United States and its allies will respond to Russia’s intervention and violence in Ukraine with an escalation of their own — including further sanctions, enhanced military presence in front-line states, and possibly greater support for Ukraine’s armed forces.… Seguir leyendo »
Cuando se encontraba en París como primer embajador de los Estados Unidos en Francia, Thomas Jefferson reflexionó sobre cómo podría el nuevo gobierno de los EE.UU. evitar los errores de los “déspotas” europeos, que mantenían a sus pueblos subyugados mediante la guerra y la deuda. En una carta a James Madison, observó que la Constitución de los EE.UU. había contenido al menos “el perro de la guerra”, al transferir “el poder de darle rienda suelta del Ejecutivo al Legislativo, de quienes han de gastar a quienes han de pagar”.
Sin embargo, la Constitución designa al mismo tiempo al Ejecutivo como “Comandante en Jefe”, poder que los presidentes americanos han invocado para utilizar la fuerza militar sin autorización del Congreso en más de 200 ocasiones.… Seguir leyendo »
There is a black wall in a State Department lobby inscribed with the names of those who died while serving overseas. Every time I passed that wall after Al Qaeda blew up two American Embassies in East Africa in 1998, I thought of the 12 American and 32 Kenyan friends and colleagues who died on my watch as ambassador. I thought of my own journey that day down flights of stairs in the building next door to the embassy, after having been knocked out by the blast, of the people who risked their lives to save others, and of how we carried on under horrendous circumstances.… Seguir leyendo »
“If you deal in camels, make the doors high,” an Afghan proverb cautions. As the dangers mount in the confrontation between the United States and Iran, both sides will have to raise the doors high for diplomacy to work, and to avoid conflict.
A diplomatic strategy must begin with the United States’ setting its priorities and then defining a practical path to achieve them. To achieve its top priorities, it will have to learn what Iran needs. Since the United States will not get total surrender from Iran, it must decide what it can put on the table to assure that both sides can reach a deal that will be durable.… Seguir leyendo »
Watching Dominique Strauss-Kahn plummet from managing director of the International Monetary Fund to criminal defendant, one could be forgiven for believing that diplomats do not get away with crimes committed in the United States. But one would be wrong.
Strauss-Kahn had functional immunity as head of the IMF, so only acts that fell within his official duties were covered. But if Strauss-Kahn had been a diplomat, even a low-ranking attaché, this story might have been quite different.
Envoys posted to the United States, like their American counterparts posted abroad, enjoy full diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. But in almost all cases, this immunity translates into impunity when those diplomats commit crimes.… Seguir leyendo »
"La providencia me destinó a la diplomacia, puesto que nací un primero de abril". Así dijo Otto von Bismarck, el Canciller de Hierro alemán, refiriéndose al día primero de abril que en los países del norte es el día de los inocentes.
Como no puede haber diplomacia inocente, la hay -siempre la ha habido- al servicio del país al que el embajador representa. Esta es una verdad palmaria desde el inicio histórico de la diplomacia, que acaso ocurrió en el año 1278 antes de Cristo, cuando el faraón de Egipto, Ramsés, llegó a un acuerdo con el rey de los hititas, Jatusil III.… Seguir leyendo »
Surely a screenplay is already in the works. An American diplomat guns down two men in broad daylight in Lahore, Pakistan. The diplomat, who secretly works for the CIA, is apprehended and turned over to the local police. In his car, according to news reports, is a Glock 9-millimeter handgun, 75 rounds of ammunition, a global positioning system device, a survival kit and a satellite phone. As U.S. officials from the president on down press for his release, he is held in a Pakistani jail, his food sniffed by dogs for fear he will be poisoned.
This improbable story, of course, really happened in January.… Seguir leyendo »
La reacción de Estados Unidos a la publicación por Wikileaks de los cables diplomáticos indica que en ese país es imposible oír su mensaje central: que su aparato imperial persiste en una tarea cada vez más imposible, la extensión de su poder en un mundo que se resiste frente a él.
Sin duda, muchos miembros de la clase política se habrán dado cuenta de que esa resistencia, muchas veces, está descoordinada, que es consecuencia del hecho de que otros pueblos experimentan el mundo desde sus respectivos puntos de vista. Sin embargo, a pesar de su educación y su experiencia, son incapaces de actuar con arreglo a ese análisis que han hecho.… Seguir leyendo »
President Obama will have a hard time achieving his foreign policy goals until he masters some key terms and better manages the expectations they convey. Given the furor that will surround the news of America’s readiness to hold talks with Iran, he could start with “engagement” — one of the trickiest terms in the policy lexicon.
The Obama administration has used this term to contrast its approach with its predecessor’s resistance to talking with adversaries and troublemakers. His critics show that they misunderstand the concept of engagement when they ridicule it as making nice with nasty or hostile regimes.
The criticisms from some of my fellow Republicans of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s success in gaining the release of two American journalists from North Korea’s gulag are misplaced. The Clintons’ behavior demonstrated respect for the expertise of their advisers and restraint from political grandstanding. Any propaganda gain for the North Korean regime will be short-term and limited. It’s even possible that the episode will have a positive effect on our troubled nuclear negotiations.
Ever since the journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were captured on North Korea’s border with China in March, America has had little diplomatic leverage.… Seguir leyendo »
President Bush's decision to send William Burns, his third-ranking diplomat, to observe nuclear negotiations in Geneva with Iran, represents a long-overdue shift in American policy - underlined by plans revealed in yesterday's Guardian to re-establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran. Hitherto, the US had demanded that Iran must concede the main point of negotiations, namely suspension of its uranium enrichment programme, before talks begin. Iran has responded positively to negotiations, but ruled out the US precondition of suspension. The US still states that it will only enter into dialogue with Iran if it halts its enrichment programme.
Iran's nuclear plants are all under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has stressed consistently that there has not been any illicit diversion of declared nuclear material.… Seguir leyendo »
It may be too early to proclaim an end to the "Cheney era", but Washington's decision to participate in Saturday's nuclear talks with Iran and send diplomats back to Tehran is a very significant shift. It marks a nadir for the gun-toting neoconservatives who dominated the first Bush term and for their unofficial champion, vice-president Dick Cheney, the stealthy advice-giver also known as "whispering grass".
Noisy sabre-rattling and a crescendo of shouted threats exchanged by Iran and Israel in recent weeks convinced many observers that the Middle East was on the brink of a new conflagration. They feared a "second Iraq" was in the making, again triggered by worries about real or imagined weapons of mass destruction.… Seguir leyendo »
Iran's latest missile tests occurred just as there have been glimmers of progress in nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the Western powers. Whether or not those talks succeed, it’s time for Washington to open a diplomatic post in Tehran.
A high-level official has told me that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is seeking President Bush’s approval to establish a United States Interests Section in the Iranian capital. This is a smart idea that Democrats and Republicans should support.
Iran is an anomaly in the Middle East. In Iran, unlike in the Arab world, America is seen as an adversary primarily by the government while most of the Iranian people see it as a country of freedom and moderation.… Seguir leyendo »
With threats to American power growing stronger and American prestige slipping around the world, our professional Foreign Service officers are more crucial than ever. Unfortunately, our approach to their security is making it almost impossible for many of them to do their jobs. Marooned in fortress-like embassies, cut off from the societies where they should be gathering intelligence and spreading American values, too many of them might as well be surveying the landscape from offices in Washington.
U.S. embassies are increasingly becoming like medieval fortresses -- remote, foreboding, impenetrable. Perched on suburban hilltops safely distant from more dangerous urban centers, they sit behind layers of high-security fences, reinforced concrete walls, thick glass windows and squads of armed guards.… Seguir leyendo »
Por Teresa La Porte, profesora agregada de Comunicación Internacional de la Facultad de Comunicación y de Análisis de Entornos Culturales del Master de Comunicación Política y Corporativa, Universidad de Navarra (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 28/09/06):
Tema: La mala imagen internacional de EEUU perjudica la política exterior y pone en riesgo su seguridad nacional. El Departamento de Estado, entre otras estrategias, ha recurrido a la diplomacia cultural para favorecer el entendimiento y difundir los valores democráticos.
Resumen: El integrismo islámico ha confirmado la influencia creciente de los valores culturales en la escena internacional. Aunque no es la única causa de su animosidad contra Occidente, es el argumento principal para justificar su particular guerra.… Seguir leyendo »
Por Soeren Kern, investigador Principal, Estados Unidos y el Diálogo Transatlántico, Real Instituto Elcano (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 24/02/05):
Tema: El Presidente George W. Bush ha elegido a los miembros clave de su equipo de política exterior para este segundo mandato.
Resumen: La composición del nuevo equipo sugiere que los halcones han consolidado su control sobre el poder y que dominarán la maquinaria estadounidense de formulación de política exterior durante los próximos cuatro años. De hecho, Bush ha mantenido en su servicio, en puestos diferentes, a casi todos aquellos cargos partidarios de una línea dura que dirigieron las políticas relativas a Irak durante los últimos cuatro años.… Seguir leyendo »
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