Is U.S. Diplomacy Being Shortchanged?
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Secretary of State Rice faces critics who say the State Department is not addressing the changing world that America must deal with
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Despite back-channel overtures from Tehran, the chance for breakthrough contacts between Iran and United States is rapidly dimming.
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It has often fallen short of its aims when taking on presidents over military matters.
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BRUSSELS -- The rift in US-European relations that opened over the war in Iraq has deepened in the last year, further evidence that the trans-Atlantic relationship is undergoing a fundamental change, according to a survey of Americans and Europeans to be published today.
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With his time in office running out, Secretary of State Colin Powell is acknowledging differences with others in the Bush administration and suggesting the disputes centered on his preference for diplomacy over force to resolve problems.
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As Condoleezza Rice enters the State Department, she will face a number of pressing foreign policy problems that she cannot solve. This will not be for lack of effort or intelligence on her part. It's just that many foreign policy crises involve the interests and activities of countries across the globe, and changing them takes time. And even then, whether it's Iran, North Korea or Darfur, there is no quick fix that Washington can impose. But there is a growing danger for the United States that needs urgent attention, that can be solved and that is almost entirely within Rice's power to handle. It's the foreign visa crisis. Left unattended, it is going to have deep and lasting effects on American security and competitiveness.
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The normally hushed corridors of diplomacy are about to get a jolt.
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PARIS, Feb 9 (IPS) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's  diplomatic  efforts during her present European tour to mend  relations with Germany and  France will not suffice to restore  confidence on both sides of the Atlantic,  according to analysts  and observers.
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WASHINGTON -- American Middle East diplomacy, nearly dormant during the final months of the presidential campaign, sprung into action yesterday as State Department and White House officials grappled with how the United States should respond in the event of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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The United States showed some new flexibility in recent talks with North Korea on the nuclear issue but Pyongyang was unimpressed and is resisting participation in a new round of formal six-party negotiations, U.S. officials and experts said on Friday.
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By opening the door to a high-level dialogue with Iran and Syria, the United States appears to be embracing a diplomatic strategy that its critics have long said was essential to stabilize Iraq.
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NEW YORK -- Two years after the Bush administration warned that the United Nations risked becoming ''irrelevant&quot; if it failed to act on Iraq, the United States is relying heavily on the world body to address a series of core US foreign policy goals, according to UN diplomats and foreign policy specialists.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was in China less than 24 hours this week, but that was enough to stir up a diplomatic tempest with some unorthodox and apparently unintended remarks about US policy on Taiwan.
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President Bush faces some unusually early foreign-policy decisions that will signal whether he&#39;ll stick with the aggressive, go-it-alone approach that dominated his first term or soften its edges with diplomacy.
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A British minister has suggested a shift  in foreign policy towards the United States, telling an  audience in Washington that a country&#39;s strength depended on  making alliances rather than military might.
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BERLIN, May 18 (IPS) - The United States appears to be cooling off to some  key concerns at the G8 heads of state  summit next month.
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Despite its pledges to stay engaged with the world, the United States is gradually retreating from the UN-sponsored system of international law, having ratified only about 29 percent of existing multilateral agreements, according to a new study.