This is not an up-close-and-personal account of Hillary Clinton's travels as US secretary of state. Instead, The Secretary is a well-documented, neatly written account of American foreign policy...
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25 Mar 2013
Bringing peace to the Middle East was US President Barack Obama's stated foreign policy aim after he took office four years ago. But the impetus quickly fizzled out, and in place of hope, there...
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So much for Operation Enduring Freedom. The American-led mission launched after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York's fiscal heart limps on, finally set to fizzle out in 2014, when the US...
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During my first week as the US secretary of state, I had the honour of meeting a group of courageous women from Burma. Two were former political prisoners, and although they had all endured...
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American foreign policy is more than just drones and troops, Senator John Kerry pledged yesterday, as he outlined to US lawmakers his priorities if they back him as the next secretary of state.
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Susan Rice was playing stand-in on September 16 when she appeared on five Sunday news programmes a few days after the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed China and other Asian countries to join trade talks in mapping out a foreign policy focused more on economic strength than military might.
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US President Barack Obama was back to his best form when he made a teary-eyed victory speech to his supporters last week and promised that the best was yet to come, and he would fight for all...
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"There you go again" has become one of the most memorable lines in US presidential debate history. It was 1980, and Ronald Reagan used it famously to dismiss president Jimmy Carter's repeated...
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US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton encouraged Australia yesterday to increase its military ties with India, including joint navy exercises, but added that Washington also supported the...
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Within days, US President Barack Obama is set to visit Southeast Asia and this is a very good thing. The region is becoming more significant by the month.
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Japan's defence minister, Satoshi Morimoto, said yesterday he wanted to revise his nation's security alliance with the United States to place more emphasis on the threat from China to Japan's...
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