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...revelation. There has been so much talk, for so many years, about the potential of China's "opening up" to the West. Still, the extent of its rise somehow managed to sneak up on the U.S. "You have an emergent power and a dominant power," says Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former director of policy planning at the State Department. "The question is, Will we inevitably be enemies? No, it's not inevitable." The goal for Washington is to manage China's rise in ways that peacefully incorporate a new force into the global system...
Erdmann’s plans to ship to Kosovo were disrupted when he received a phone call from Richard N. Haass, who had just become the director of policy planning in the State Department, as The New Yorker described in a recent feature...
...four years ago, during a different sort of transition—the Bush administration had just been ushered into Washington—and the government was performing a talent search, looking for the most energetic and brightest minds. Erdmann had been highly recommended to Haass by his dissertation advisor (and old friend of Haass’), Warren Professor of American History Ernest...
...Inspections will not work," he declared, and "it's an open question right now" whether the U.S. would seek further U.N. approval before acting. Yet the Administration is concerned that European resistance could nourish American antiwar sentiment. At the gathering of global elites last week in Davos, Switzerland, Richard Haass, the State Department's director of policy planning, was sent into a packed session to answer questions about whether war was inevitable or necessary. After a rough ride, he acknowledged Bush "has yet to persuade the international community" that military action is needed...
...Washington's patience with such saber rattling is wearing thin. On a visit to New Delhi last week, U.S. Director of Policy Planning Richard Haass tried to cajole the two sides into talking instead of trading threats. For a start, he said, India should drop its refusal to negotiate with Pakistan until the latter stopped sponsoring Islamic militancy. Already embroiled in the Iraq and Korea crises, America is hoping Pakistan and India can avoid yet another nuclear standoff, at least for this year...