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This series of networking opportunities began when over 45 students filled Sever 102 to hear the former Canadian ambassador to Cuba, the former Finnish ambassador to Israel and Cyprus and a veteran of the French diplomatic corps—all Weatherhead Center fellows—discuss their experiences...
Former Finnish Ambassador to Israel Pasi Patokallio discussed the importance of contact with other parties within the system and warned students against “the deadliest sin of the diplomat, ‘localitis,’ where you forget to represent your government, and where you ‘understand’ the locals too much...
...some instances, such as when a citizen is imprisoned, ambassadors often get a taste of the “seamier side of life,” according to Michael Small, the former Canadian ambassador to Cuba...
...While there's no clarity yet on what proposals Ambassador Bremer will take back with him to Baghdad, there's a consensus in Washington that the current transition program is not working. The escalating security crisis in Iraq has prompted the Pentagon to pursue a strategy of "Iraqification," deploying more and more Iraqis against the insurgency. But for "Iraqification" to have any impact, it will have to be accompanied by a parallel political transition: Iraqis are a less likely to risk their lives defending an occupation authority than they would be to fight for a new Iraqi government...
...grapples its way to an exit strategy, the neo-conservative vision in which an invasion of Iraq would create a Middle East beachhead of liberal-democratic, secular, free-market, pro-Western and Israel-friendly sentiment is looking increasingly like the stuff of fantasy. The leading U.S. constitutional adviser to ambassador Bremer last week told the British Daily Telegraph that "The end constitutional product is very likely to make many people in the U.S. government unhappy." Dr. Noah Feldman added that "any democratically elected Iraqi government is unlikely to be secular and unlikely to be pro-Israel. And frankly, moderately unlikely...