Word: ambassadors
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...included a blistering attack on the conduct of the U.S.-led war, complaining that Washington and its allies are undermining the Afghan government by ignoring its authority, and accusing them of patronizing warlords and overlooking the corruption and waste in their own aid programs. Earlier this month, Karzai's ambassador to the U.N., Zahir Tanin, told the Security Council of Afghanistan's "grave concern" over coalition military tactics there, calling on the coalition to minimize use of air strikes and coordinate its actions with the Afghan government...
Harvard Kennedy School professor Joseph S. Nye has been offered the post of U.S. ambassador to Japan, an appointment that could enhance the current administration’s call for greater adoption of Nye’s noted “soft power” foreign policy philosophy, according to multiple news outlets...
...appointment of Nye, who would replace current ambassador Tom Schieffer, would complement the current administration’s call for a greater reliance on soft power, a marked contrast to what many of Obama’s top national security officials viewed as the overuse of military force, or “hard power,” during the past administration...
Meltzer is at least the seventh Harvard professor to decamp Cambridge for Washington and the third Law School professor to leave for the capitol. Kennedy School Professor Joseph S. Nye is rumored to be Obama’s choice for ambassador to Japan...
...head of the Russian Orthodox Church. He arrives at the top job in Moscow with a very long and public resume. He served for nearly two decades as head of the Church's office of external affairs, a kind of roaming secretary of state, the Russian church's ambassador on the world's religious chessboard. (See pictures of the Pope in France...