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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Friends To The End Dept.: Saudis Might Acknowledge Existence of Iraq |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 10:44 am |
| Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Diplomacy, Friends To The End Dept, Iraq, Robert Gates, Saudi Arabia |
| Our best friends the Saudis are doing us yet another solid — such bros they are! They might, maybe, if they feel like it, upgrade diplomatic relations with that little experiment we’re... |
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| Turkish military recieves slap in the face as hopes are raised for solution to The Kurdish Question. |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 6:04 am |
| Tags: Kurds Turkey Political Solution Diplomacy |
| "Ahem! Now listen here Yasar old boy, I know the US Neo Cons are pressurising you but I don't think this invasion thing is a good idea, do you? And I also think, ahem, its about time we came up with something new on The Kurdish Question, don't you....... erm effendim?" Fantasy or could it be? |
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| Heartthrob Diplomacy: Iran: Today's Terrorists, Yesterday's "Cosmo" Centerfolds |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 12:50 pm |
| Tags: Heartthrob Diplomacy, Ooohs Ahhmadinejads, Wonkette |
| A branch of the Iranian military was just added to our official "Terrorism Watch list." What's become of all the allies of our youths?? We were just musing over how a country that in our childhood... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| More on Rudy Giuliani's Foreign Policy |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 3:35 pm |
| Tags: Counter Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy |
| step in rebuilding a strong diplomacy will be to make changes in the State Department and the Foreign Service. The time has come to refine the diplomats' mission down to their core purpose: presenting U.S. policy to the rest of the world.Our ambassadors must clearly understand and clearly advocate for U.S. policies and be judged on the results. |
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| There's No Crying In Public Diplomacy Dept.: Condi, Karen, and Cal: Friends in Diplomacy |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 4:56 pm |
| Tags: Baseball, Clips, Condoleezza Rice, Diplomacy, Karen Hughes, Sports, State Department, There S No Crying In Public Diplomacy Dept, Wtf |
| of State for Public Diplomacy) and Condoleezza Rice, GQ’s MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN WASHINGTON, DC, sit on a couch and chat with Cal Ripken, Jr., the famous baseball player. He apparently works for State now? As… Ambassador of Baseball? Brilliant insights from our Secretary of State: “Sports is a universal |
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| The Power of Priming |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 9:31 am |
| Tags: Conference On Disarmament, United Nations, Thornton, Psychology, Priming, Perceptions, Decision Making, Diplomacy |
| The human subconscious, it turns out, is more active than we think. And it can be primed in remarkable ways by seemingly mundane objects, smells and sounds, as a recent New York Times article outlined.The article reported, for instance, one recent study by Yale psychologists, which revealed that college students handed either a cup of hot or iced |
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| "Cognitive Ergonomics"? |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:41 am |
| Tags: Social Interactions, Human Nature, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Borrie, Intuitions, Cognitive Ergonomics, Diplomacy |
| In 10 minutes of off-the-cuff concluding remarks from our 25 May Disarmament Insight symposium on Human Security, Human Nature and Trust-building in Negotiations', John Borrie talked about what he calls cognitive ergonomics and the relevance of the concept in thinking about the structures and procedures in multilateral negotiations. Not |
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| Is there a Geneva / New York divide? |
| Published: July 8, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: United Nations, New York, Civil Society, Mc Carthy, Negotiators, Humanitarian Impacts, Disarmament, Arms Control, Geneva, Multilateral Negotiations, Bob Dylan, Diplomacy |
| Bob Dylan played a sold-out concert in Geneva recently, mixing songs from his latest album, "Modern Times," with some of his old classics, including "Like a Rolling Stone," which contains the following cryptic lyrics:"You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat / who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat..."Nobody quite knows what this |
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| Zapped! Mobile technology in the conference chamber |
| Published: July 4, 2007, 6:13 am |
| Tags: Social Interactions, Blackberry, Conference, Negotiators, Technology, Arms Control, Decision Making, Multilateral Negotiations, Mobile Phone, Lewis, Diplomacy |
| In the past, in a negotiating conference room, one could always tell when something was afoot. Delegates would be moving around the room often with unseemly speed - clutching sheaves of draft text. Conclaves of ambassadors would huddle in a corner to sweat out the immediate joint response to a smart proposal from another delegation or group. |
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| France Changes Iraq Stance |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 12:01 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, France, Diplomacy |
| Our old friend France is finally back: Sarkozy 'corrects' Chirac's errorsBy Amir Taheri, Special to Gulf NewsPublished: August 22, 2007, 00:13 One of the key promises that Nicolas Sarkozy had made during his presidential election campaign last spring was to "correct" foreign policy "mistakes" made by his predecessor Jacques |
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| Thomas Friedman gets the middle finger in the Middle Kingdom |
| Published: September 9, 2007, 9:52 am |
| Tags: China, Diplomacy |
| It's not every day that you get to sit and watch a senior Chinese diplomat rip Thomas Friedman "a new one" (as we say in American colloquial parlance) as all the Chinese members of the audience cheer him on. But on Friday morning in a panel discussion titled "China's Soft Power" that's what happened. The panel was |
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| Fooled by randomness? |
| Published: September 10, 2007, 10:22 am |
| Tags: Thornton, Complexity Theory, Psychology, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Borrie, Multilateral Negotiations, Diplomacy |
| project.In multilateral diplomacy, like many other walks of life, there seems to be a bit of a generation gap or, perhaps more accurately, a "rank" gap. Younger, less-senior diplomats are fascinating to listen to in this regard, as their collective sense of the weaknesses of their institutional structures and ways of working, and problems |
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| Five Reasons It’s Hard To Be a Democrat |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 7:48 am |
| Tags: 2008 Elections, Eurasian Balkans, Politics, Usa, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Democrats, Diplomacy, Elections, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Iraq War, John Mccain, Moveon Org, Rudy Giuliani, Shia, Sunni |
| It;s hard to be a Democrat trying to deal with the Iraq War issue with MoveOn.org providing a ready made bogeyman |
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| Wouldn't It Be Rice Dept.: Even the Nazi Pope Has Had Enough of Condi |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 11:45 am |
| Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Diplomacy, Iraq, Pope, State Department, Wouldn T It Be Rice Dept |
| Recently it was revealed that Condoleezza Rice, GQ’s “MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN DC,” can’t actually get the New York Times to return her phone calls or print her lame op-eds.... |
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| Wouldn't It Be Rice Dept.: Even the Nazi Pope Has Had Enough of Condi |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 11:45 am |
| Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Diplomacy, Iraq, Pope, State Department, Wouldn T It Be Rice Dept |
| Recently it was revealed that Condoleezza Rice, GQ’s “MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN DC,” can’t actually get the New York Times to return her phone calls or print her lame op-eds. According to the BBC, they’re not the only ones to snub her — the Pope refused to meet with Condi last month. The Pope! The guy just met |
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