Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,Albright was the first woman to hold that post.
John Malkovich is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades,including a Primetime Emmy Award,in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards,a BAFTA Award,two Screen Actors Guild Awards,and three Golden Globe Awards.
William Kristol is an American neoconservative writer. A frequent commentator on several networks including CNN,he was the founder and editor-at-large of the political magazine The Weekly Standard. Kristol is now editor-at-large of the center-right publication The Bulwark and has been the host of Conversations with Bill Kristol,an interview web program,since 2014.
Richard Green Lugar KBE was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world.
Nelson Strobridge Talbott III is an American foreign policy analyst focused on Russia. He was associated with Time magazine,and a diplomat who served as the deputy secretary of state from 1994 to 2001. He was president of Brookings Institution from 2002 to 2017.
Roger Charles Altman is an American investment banker,the founder and senior chairman of Evercore,and a former Democratic politician. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter administration from January 1977 until January 1981 and as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration from January 1993 until he resigned in August 1994,amid the Whitewater controversy.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who has served as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
William Joseph Burns is an American diplomat who has served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Biden administration since March 19,2021. He previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2014;in 2009 he served as acting secretary of state for a day,prior to the confirmation of Hillary Clinton. Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a 32-year career. From 2014 to 2021,he served as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Martin Sean Indyk is an American diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East. He was a distinguished fellow in International Diplomacy and later executive vice president at the Brookings Institution in Washington,D.C from 2001-2018. He took leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as the U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli–Palestinian Negotiations from 2013 to 2014. He is currently a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Clinton Foundation is a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code. It was established by former president of the United States Bill Clinton with the stated mission to "strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence." Its offices are located in New York City and Little Rock,Arkansas.
Stephen Warren Bosworth was an American academic and diplomat. He served as Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University and served as United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy from March 2009 to October 2011. He served three times as a U.S. Ambassador,to Tunisia (1979–1981),to the Philippines (1984–1987),and to South Korea (1997–2001). In 1987,he received the American Academy of Diplomacy's Diplomat of the Year Award.
In scheduled transportation,a layover is a point where a vehicle stops,with passengers possibly changing vehicles. In public transit,this typically takes a few minutes at a trip terminal. For air travel,where layovers are longer,passengers will exit the vehicle and wait in the terminal,often to board another vehicle traveling elsewhere.
Edward "Ted" Ladd Widmer is an American historian,writer,librarian,and musician who served as a speechwriter in the Clinton White House.
Tourism in Iran provides a range of activities from hiking and skiing in the Alborz and Zagros mountains,to beach holidays by the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. The Iranian government has made efforts to attract tourists to various destinations in the country.
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is an American diplomat,attorney,political activist and philanthropist who is the United States ambassador to Brazil in the Biden administration. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Portugal from 1994 to 1997.
The Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) is a study by the United States Department of State,conducted beginning in 2009 and intended to be done every four years,that analyzes the short-,medium-,and long-term blueprint for the United States' diplomatic and development efforts abroad. It seeks to plan on a longer-term basis than the usual year-to-year,appropriations-based practice,and to integrate diplomacy and development missions. It similarly seeks to correlate the department’s missions with its capacities and identify shortfalls in resourcing. Finally,it is a precursor to core institutional reforms and corrective changes. The first review was completed by the end of 2010. A second review began during 2014 and was released in April 2015. No further reviews have taken place.
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1986 by retired Foreign Service officers,headquartered at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington,Virginia. It produces and shares oral histories by American diplomats and facilitates the publication of books about diplomacy by diplomats and others. Its Foreign Affairs Oral History program has recorded over 2,600 oral histories and continues to grow;its book series includes over 100 books. ADST is located on the campus of the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington,Virginia. ADST is the sole American private organization principally committed to the collection of documents about recent U.S. diplomatic history.
America's Other Army:The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st-Century Diplomacy is a book by Nicholas Kralev. Its first edition was published in 2012,and its second edition in 2015.
The Washington International Diplomatic Academy,abbreviated as WIDA,is an American independent educational organization based in Washington,D.C.. It offers professional development in diplomacy and international affairs.
