Word: consultancy
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...sentimental journey" to West Berlin, where in the early '50s he was married to his wife Keke while serving as a young Foreign Service officer. In Bonn, he talked with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for two hours and pleased West German leaders by faulting Carter for failing to consult European allies more often...
...proposed Cabinet reshuffle backfired. Two partners in the coalition, the Democratic Movement and the National Religious Party, objected both to Begin's failure to consult them in advance and to the selection of Moda'i, who did little to impress his critics when he informed them in a meeting that "I'm 90% qualified." At the same time, Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a former general and the leading hard-line proponent of Israel's incendiary settlements policy in the West Bank, threatened to resign if he did not get the Defense Ministry himself. Begin explained...
Even if the charge were true, that would not explain why Giscard failed to consult with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, his closest friend among the leaders of the alliance. Not until a few hours before he took off for Warsaw did Giscard telephone Schmidt. (Thatcher and Carter, by contrast, received laconic messages.) "The conversation was not warm," reported a chancellery aide Added a Foreign Ministry official: "We were hoodwinked...
...Washington during the first two years of the Carter Administration, credits Vance with repairing strains that had developed in allied relations during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, when Kissinger often negotiated with Moscow over the allies' heads. Says Jay: "Cy Vance showed a very reassuring willingness to consult and to give time to issues that fell below the grand geopolitical concerns of the superpowers. He is very good at conducting hardheaded negotiations, but he is also good at settling matters out of court if possible. That is pretty close to the European approach...
...easiest change for the U.S. to make will be to consult more frequently with its allies before leaping into action. Far more difficult will be the challenge of creating a consistent foreign policy that the allies can trust and use as a lodestone to plot their own courses...