"But our view is, there is still time for diplomacy and,I might say, sanctions to persuade the Iranians that their security will be diminished by going down the track of nuclear weapons."

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Stephen Flanagan, the Henry A. Kissinger chair in diplomacy and national security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, underscored the sense of uncertainty.

CNN: Early foreign policy tests await France's Hollande

To make matters worse, Mr Axworthy's remarks in the Security Council about multilateral diplomacy and defining human security in more than military terms have not pleased American strategists.

ECONOMIST: Canada

Experts disagree over whether the South Korean constitution which states that the president may call a referendum only over significant matters of national interest, such as diplomacy, security and unification allows a vote of confidence on the presidency.

ECONOMIST: The president calls a referendum on his fitness for the job