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- Irwin Arieff
- • June 29, 2020
I never thought I would ever feel sorry for Nikki Haley. But John Bolton, in his infamous new book, “The Room Where It Happened,” is so unrelenting in his snide comments about Haley, President Trump’s first ambassador to the…
- Categories: BOOKS, US Foreign Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • November 19, 2019
“With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace,” is framed as a look back at Nikki Haley’s two years as United States ambassador to the United Nations. It’s also not unreasonable to assume she’s just ticking off…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • March 23, 2018
Nikki Haley insisted all along that she had no desire to become Donald Trump’s secretary of state. But with Mike Pompeo, the CIA director, in line to succeed Rex Tillerson as the State Department’s top dog, Haley may soon…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • February 25, 2018
A record number of staff members have quit, resigned or been fired by the administration of Donald Trump during its first year, roughly at a rate of one in three — a sieve unseen in the previous five White…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 26, 2017
In Washington, there is no question that the State Department is in a weakened position, a situation that the Trump White House — and the Trump family — seem to relish. To some in the understaffed, stripped-down Foreign Service…
- Categories: Middle East, Nikki Haley Watch, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations
- Kacie Candela
- • October 31, 2017
A new women, peace and security index was unveiled at the United Nations recently. At its core, the WPS index, as it is known, provides evidence for what advocates have been saying all along: that the active and equal…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 9, 2017
The countdown to Donald Trump’s first speech at the United Nations as United States president has begun. What is known: on Sept. 19 in the General Assembly Hall, Trump will step at the lectern in front of the green…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • September 3, 2017
Donald Trump will have his third chance this October to weigh in on Iranian compliance with the international nuclear agreement reached by Tehran in 2015 with the United States and five other world powers. The United States Congress requires…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council
- Irwin Arieff
- • July 25, 2017
Nikki Haley is one lucky Trump appointee. Sure, sure, it’s a great honor to be a public servant, especially when you’re way up at the top. But the GOP wastes no love on the United Nations; Republican presidents can…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 10, 2017
Nearly six months into her United Nations assignment, Ambassador Nikki Haley is aligning herself more decisively with President Donald Trump, defending some of his most controversial and unpopular moves. It is a critical diplomatic time for the White House…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 29, 2017
When the White House sent its proposed 2018 budget to the United States Congress on May 23, it was apparent that not only would a hawkish, nationalistic focus on military expenditures come at the cost of international aid and…
- Kacie Candela
- • May 23, 2017
Amid the predominantly Francophone region in West Africa is tiny Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea, a country blessed — or cursed — with vast oil reserves. For most of its independent life, the country has been ruled by President Teodoro Obiang…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Human Rights, Poverty, Security Council
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • May 20, 2017
If Nikki Haley is dressing for attention, honestly, it would be hard to fault her. One of the few women named to President Trump’s administration, Haley, a former governor of South Carolina who is the ambassador to the United…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • May 17, 2017
In just a few weeks, the United Nations is convening a world gathering to discuss the health of the world’s oceans and seas, with member states, government and nongovernmental organizations, corporations and members of the scientific community and academia…
- Categories: Climate Change, SDGs, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 28, 2017
Speaking to the United Nations Security Council at a meeting on North Korea held at the foreign-minister level, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked member countries to join the United States in a strong campaign to enhance pressures on the…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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