Tag Archives: U.S. State Department

Diplomacy in action: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Hits the Beltway

27th
May. × ’10

My brother pointed this out to me–thanks for the tip. Liberia’s president, Madame Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is in Washington this week. She’s already visited Secretary Clinton and Speaker Pelosi. She’ll be giving the commencement address at Georgetown, as well as, meeting with Obama. Traditionally, these visits provide an opportunity to discuss aid and investment. President [...]

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Diplomacy in action: 2009 Human Rights Report on Liberia

16th
Mar. × ’10

This is a perennial event in embassies around the world. The release of a country’s annual human rights report. In the months and weeks before these documents are made public, diplomats draft and revise and redraft an analysis of how a given country is meeting international human rights standards. Historically with Liberia, this provided an [...]

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Broken news: Waiting for my man in Afghanistan

27th
Oct. × ’09

A week or so back, Rahm Emmanuel, also a New Trier and Sarah Lawrence alum, described President Obama’s decision on Afghanistan policy as “more complex” than the question of troop levels. The decision, he says, is dependent on whether “there’s an Afghan partner ready to fill that space that the U.S. troops would create and [...]

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