Government ought to only oversee what preserves the inalienable rights resident in our persons and property: fire, police, military and foreign diplomacy, the legal infrastructure and certain other functions difficult for markets to coordinate such as roads.
The US has publicly declared it will fight discrimination against gays and lesbians abroad by using foreign aid and diplomacy to encourage reform.
That meant that several important countries were prepared to give the foreign-policy post to a British candidate, if that might lock in British support for much more ambitious developments in diplomacy and foreign policy.
The disdain for diplomacy and other foreign entanglements is already proving expensive, and at some stage the United States will surely want to engage with allies on more emollient terms.
Of course, the United States will need to do much more to secure its interests, such as increasing its miniscule public diplomacy budget for the region, and invigorating state-to-state diplomacy to deny foreign states the opportunity to advance harmful agendas.
And I would think that that would have consequences perhaps in (unintelligible) foreign aid, different kinds of diplomacy, a more calculated response to terrorism.
But the question of foreign policy in U.S. diplomacy will play heavily in the choice of the people that are going who are going to make for the leadership of this country in the next administration.
First, Congress controls the federal government's purse strings, including for diplomacy and the armed services, so foreign policy is in fact part of the job description.
As Obama seeks to stabilize the region, his administration has been advocating multilateralism and stressing "smart power" diplomacy by using all the tools of foreign policy available.
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He wants to continue as foreign minister even though he has shown little flair for diplomacy.
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"This is a big step forward for security and diplomacy in the region, " said host Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan.
The official also defended the department against charges that a directive issued from the Secretary's office to diplomats to collect information on foreign diplomats working at the United Nations blurred the line between diplomacy and espionage.
When I talk to the American people, they understand that we can't just have a foreign policy that's based on our military, but diplomacy matters as well, and that our commitment to help other countries develop their own capacities is something that is good for us.
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"The best diplomacy is created on the ground, " said Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey.
The event was organized by the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the U.S. Army.
The State Department offers five Foreign Service career tracks: consular, economic, management, political and public diplomacy.
Foreign aid is also a national security issue, serving as an important humanitarian diplomacy.
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Serious scholars of foreign policy will be able to have something of an inside track on US diplomacy for the years covered by these cables, at least in terms of being able to monitor some of the inputs coming into the foreign policy-making process.
Given its total failure to promote U.S. interests through public diplomacy, and the incompatibility of the mission with the culture of the foreign service, the State Department is the last place to be in charge of such an operation.
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But Luiz Felipe Lampreia, Brazil's foreign minister, says that Mr Fujimori at first misinterpreted Brazil's attempt at more subtle diplomacy as a signal that he had been let off the hook.
Indeed, perhaps most importantly, at a time when the U.S. faced distractions and new constraints at home and a national desire to avoid military entanglements worldwide, she recognized that our greatest tools going forward would be active diplomacy and repaired alliances, and she restored them to centrality in U.S. foreign policy.
Throughout her tenure as foreign minister and still today as Kadima's candidate for prime minister, Livni claims that she supports using diplomacy to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Furthermore, policymakers will have to formulate a coherent public diplomacy effort to explain the relationship between the private security sector and U.S. military and foreign policy objectives, due to the increasingly negative media perception of the private security industry.
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Now as one who has long since rejected the faith in diplomacy and sanctions, I never thought I would live to see the day when most members of the foreign policy establishment would come to admit that the carrot and stick approach would not and could not succeed in preventing Iran from getting the bomb.
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