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Americans have also demonstrated time and again that in the right circumstances, and with the right justification, they will respond to a call for foreign involvement. Robert Zoellick, Under Secretary of State in the Bush Administration, calls it "show-me internationalism." Voters, he says, "want each case demonstrated on its own terms why the U.S. should engage. They're not isolationist, but they need to be focused...
...also been criticized for his management of the State Department. He has alienated senior career diplomats by relying too heavily on a tight circle of longtime aides brought in from the outside. Among them: policy planning director Dennis Ross; counsellor and Under Secretary for Economic and Agricultural Affairs Robert Zoellick; and Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Margaret Tutwiler. Career types especially resent Baker's decision to replace Thomas Pickering as the U.S. representative to the United Nations. A seasoned and effective diplomat, Pickering held the Security Council in line through 12 anti-Iraq resolutions during the six months leading...
Baker "runs a calm shop," says State Department counselor Robert Zoellick. "There's no nonsense. You state your views and support them, both as briefly and quietly as possible. Then you get out." Zoellick, who could have been White House domestic-affairs adviser, is one of a handful of Baker aides who turned down more visible posts elsewhere in the Administration. "The reason for that," says Margaret Tutwiler, who has been Baker's closest assistant for more than ten years, "is that ((Baker)) is loyal down as well as up. He seeks out strong-minded people and delegates considerable authority...
Harvard's most impressive entrant is Bob Zoellick, a law school student. With several marathons in the low 2:30s to his credit, the former Swarthmore cross-country star should place high...