The United States Department of State (DOS),or State Department,is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nations,its primary duties are advising the U.S. president on international relations,administering diplomatic missions,negotiating international treaties and agreements,and representing the U.S. at the United Nations. The department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building,a few blocks from the White House,in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington,D.C.;"Foggy Bottom" is thus sometimes used as a metonym.
David Dean Rusk was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson,the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration. He had been a high government official in the 1940s and early 1950s,as well as the head of a leading foundation. He is cited as one of the two officers responsible for dividing the two Koreas at the 38th parallel.
Charles Curtis was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. A member of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas Territory,Curtis was the first Native American and first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the highest offices in the federal executive branch.
The Fulbright Program,including the Fulbright–Hays Program,is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations,cultural diplomacy,and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries,through the exchange of persons,knowledge,and skills. Via the program,competitively-selected American citizens including students,scholars,teachers,professionals,scientists,and artists may receive scholarships or grants to study,conduct research,teach,or exercise their talents abroad;and citizens of other countries may qualify to do the same in the United States. The program was founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946 and is considered to be one of the most widely recognized and prestigious scholarships in the world. The program provides approximately 8,000 grants annually –roughly 1,600 to U.S. students,1,200 to U.S. scholars,4,000 to foreign students, 900 to foreign visiting scholars,and several hundred to teachers and professionals.
James William Fulbright was an American politician,academic,and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. As of 2022,Fulbright is the longest serving chairman in the history of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He is best known for his strong multilateralist positions on international issues,opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War,and the creation of the international fellowship program bearing his name,the Fulbright Program.
The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the U.S. Senate charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and debate in the Senate. It is generally responsible for overseeing and funding foreign aid programs;funding arms sales and training for national allies;and holding confirmation hearings for high-level positions in the Department of State. Its sister committee in the House of Representatives is the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments,he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who serves as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
Donald Boyd Easum was an American diplomat.
Raymond F. Hopkins is an American political science professor and expert on food politics and food policy. Hopkins taught at Swarthmore College from 1967 until his retirement in 2007,where he was the Richter Professor of Political Science.
David James McAllister is a German politician who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party. He is the current Vice President of the European People's Party and he is also Vice Chairman of the International Democrat Union. He was appointed Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2017.
Michael Stohl is Professor and a former Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of California,Santa Barbara. He researches organizational and political communication with special focus on terrorism,human rights and global relations. He has been a guest commentator on National Public Radio,NBC,and CBS for stories on terrorism and human rights. He has been critical of the George W. Bush administration's understanding of terrorism networks during the War on Terrorism.
Kevin Wayne Yoder is an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas's 3rd congressional district from 2011 to 2019. A Republican,Yoder was the Kansas State Representative for the 20th district from 2003 to 2011. In his 2018 reelection bid,he was defeated by Democrat Sharice Davids by a nine percent margin.
Nirupama Menon Rao is a retired civil servant of 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service cadre who served as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011,as well as being India's Ambassador to the United States,China and Sri Lanka during her career.
Richard J. Samuels is an American academic,political scientist,author,Japanologist,Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Edita Tahiri is a leader of the independence of Kosovo,the former deputy prime minister,minister of foreign affairs and peace negotiator. She was also minister for dialogue,minister of public administration and member of parliament in five terms. She was the chief negotiator of the Republic of Kosovo for seven years (2011-2017) in the EU facilitated dialogue,with US support,on normalization of neighborly relations with Serbia. | She was the Deputy Prime minister responsible for foreign policy and national security (2011–2014). She was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo for ten years in difficult time of liberation and independence of Kosovo (1991–2000). She is a signer of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Kosovo,on 17 February 2008. She is the President of reformist party,the Democratic Alternative of Kosovo (ADK) and Chair of the Regional Women's Lobby in Southeastern Europe (RWLSEE). She is member of the Women Waging Peace Network. and member of the Mediterranean Women's Mediators Network.
Angela E. Stent is a foreign policy expert specializing in US and European relations with Russia and Russian foreign policy. She is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and director of its Center for Eurasian,Russian,and East European Studies. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has served in the Office of Policy Planning in the US State Department and as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia.
Arthur Doak Barnett,known as A. Doak Barnett,was an American journalist,political scientist,and public figure who wrote about the domestic politics and the foreign relations of China and United States-China relations. He published more than 20 academic and public interest books and edited still others. Barnett's parents were missionaries in China,and Barnett used his Chinese language ability while travelling widely in China as a journalist before 1949. He grounded his journalism and his scholarship in exact detail and clear language. Starting in the 1950s,when there were no formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China,he organized public outreach programs and lobbied the United States government to put those relations on a new basis.
"Conflict in Vietnam and at Home" was a speech given on March 18,1968,by U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy at Kansas State University. Having only declared his candidacy for president two days before,the address was Kennedy's first official campaign speech. He discussed student protests,consequences of the Vietnam War,and Lyndon B. Johnson's leadership of the country.
Paul Albert Sracic is an American political scientist,writer,and political analyst known for his analysis of US politics,working class voters,and trade issues. He chairs the Department of Politics and International Relations at Youngstown State University in Ohio.
