My salesmen knew that I had a long abiding interest, unusual for most Americans, in foreign policy and international relations.
Blackwill is Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Ali Wyne is an associate of the Belfer Center and a contributing analyst at Wikistrat.
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One of them was Walter Russell Mead, a prominent member of the foreign-policy establishment as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and also one of its best writers.
To this end, the Center for Security Policy recommends that joint hearings of the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees be held at the earliest possible moment to take testimony from Ms. Albright and other Administration officials.
Germany has other foreign-policy priorities besides France, such as improved relations with Poland and other central European countries.
If so, far from being a success for Europe's common foreign policy, Iran could become a big irritant in relations between America and Europe.
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Mr Eizenstat was giving testimony to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing investigating the Caspian Sea area and US policy towards it.
Ask any Mexican politician what his country's foreign-policy priority must be, and the response is the same: maintain good relations with the United States and improve the lot of migrants headed north.
Sound foreign policy predicates on peace, but not pacifism, strength, but not aggression, and expanded commercial relations.
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They set the broad parameters of Iranian foreign policy and strategy, leaving the president with a limited ability to maneuver in determining the country's international relations.
However, intelligence and international relations experts had for the past few years been stating that the US must change its foreign policy or face the wrath of extremists.
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But the uncomfortable fact is that Mr Helms, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has a voice in foreign policy almost as loud as that of the president himself, and sometimes louder.
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