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Yahoo News
April 9, 2018
This article originally appeared on Atlantic Council. Syria presents newly minted US National Security Advisor John Bolton with his first foreign policy crisis. On April 9, hours after US President Donald J. Trump vowed Bashar al-Assad's regime will pay a “big price” for an alleged chemical weapons attack onÃâà...
New York Times
April 8, 2018
“He was a practitioner, sometimes along with others, of sledgehammer diplomacy, a take-it-or-leave-it approach to diplomacy,” said R. Nicholas Burns, who as under secretary sparred regularly with Mr. Bolton. Mr. Burns argued for compromise and patient work with allies. “You can't just default to leverage,Ãâà...
TODAYonline
April 8, 2018
"He was a practitioner, sometimes along with others, of sledgehammer diplomacy, a take-it-or-leave-it approach to diplomacy," said Mr R. Nicholas Burns, who as undersecretary sparred regularly with Mr Bolton. Mr Burns argued for compromise and patient work with allies. "You can't just default to leverageÃâà...
Boston College Chronicle
April 4, 2018
Former U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization R. Nicholas Burns '78, H'02, now a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, will deliver the keynote remarks during a dinner for participants on Saturday night. This is the 13th Meeting of the Minds Conference, which the ACCAC organizes asÃâà...
New York Times
April 4, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Trump has been commander in chief for 14 months, but to an uncanny degree, he still sounds like the armchair statesman who ran for the White House in 2016. “I want to get out,” Mr. Trump said of the United States' military engagement in Syria, at a news conference onÃâà...
New York Times
March 22, 2018
“His support for the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal, and his conception of having talks about talks with North Korea, I thought all of those were correct,” said R. Nicholas Burns, a former career foreign service officer who was once Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's right-hand man. “But heÃâà...
Newburgh Gazette
March 19, 2018
But the Kremlin, which has steadfastly denied the accusations, ignored the deadline and said Britain had not given it enough time to respond to May's request. "Judgment day for Donald Trump", R. Nicholas Burns, a former United States ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, tweeted after theÃâà...
Business Insider
March 14, 2018
"Judgment day for Donald Trump," R. Nicholas Burns, a former US ambassador to NATO, tweeted after the UK announced the measures it was taking to penalize Russia. "Will he support Britain unequivocally on the nerve agent attack? Back #NATO sanctions? Finally criticize Putin? Act like a leader of theÃâà...
Harvard Crimson
February 26, 2018
The event was moderated by former Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter, who now works at the Kennedy School, and Professor R. Nicholas Burns. Sawers began his talk with a discussion of geopolitics and the merits of the Western model, moving on to argue that the U.S. and the U.K. are no longer theÃâà...
Harvard Crimson
February 22, 2018
David W. Miliband, president and CEO of the International Refugee Committee, discussed the global refugee crisis with Kennedy School professor R. Nicholas Burns at an Institute of Politics event Thursday evening. At the event, entitled “The Refugee Crisis and What Can Be Done About It,” Miliband andÃâà...
Harvard Crimson
February 19, 2018
As founder and faculty director of the Future of Diplomacy Project, Kennedy School Professor R. Nicholas Burns first invited Powell to the Belfer Center. He said his decision to bring Powell to the Kennedy School was motivated by her experience in public service and her unique background. “We wanted toÃâà...
New York Times
February 18, 2018
R. Nicholas Burns, a former American ambassador to NATO now at Harvard, said, “It is a mistake for the U.S. to make this an issue.” The real task is getting Europeans to spend more efficiently and usefully on defense, he said, given the threats from Russia. “But the E.U. is incapable of creating a competitiveÃâà...
WBUR
November 30, 2017
McEldowney, along with former ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, joined On Point Tuesday to talk about Tillerson's leadership of the State Department. They had dire warnings about his tenure. Within 48 hours, Washington was abuzz with news that it was about to come to an end. The Times report saidÃâà...
Harvard Crimson
October 25, 2017
Pritzker also criticized Trump's stances on trade policy, described by Kennedy School professor R. Nicholas Burns—who moderated the event—as a potential “revolution in trade.” Trump has repeatedly criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement and withdrew the United States from theÃâà...
Santa Fe New Mexican
October 20, 2017
The presidency of Donald Trump is challenging nothing less than the foundation of American democracy, says R. Nicholas Burns, a former U.S. ambassador and undersecretary of state for President George W. Bush. “That generation between 1945 and the last couple years produced, despite all theÃâà...
The Washington Diplomat
September 6, 2017
R. Nicholas Burns celebrated his 17th birthday the day after the signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords that formally ended the Vietnam War. At his birthday party, he could hear the church bells of his hometown, Wellesley, Mass., ringing. “We were delivered of this terrible war,” he said, reflecting on theÃâà...
New York Times
June 1, 2017
“From a foreign policy perspective, it's a colossal mistake — an abdication of American leadership,” said R. Nicholas Burns, a retired career diplomat and an under secretary of state for President George W. Bush. “The success of our foreign policy — in trade, military, any other kind of negotiation — dependsÃâà...
Boston College Chronicle
March 24, 2017
Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns '78, H'02, whose distinguished career in international diplomacy spanned four presidential administrations, will be the featured speaker at the University's Laetare Sunday celebration on March 26 in Conte Forum. Laetare Sunday marks theÃâà...
WRAL.com
December 31, 1999
Others said McMaster's expected dismissal, along with the anticipated firings of the others, would further devastate White House morale. “You can imagine how people lower down feel,” said R. Nicholas Burns, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and a former diplomat who worked for presidents of bothÃâà...
MyAJC
December 31, 1999
“Judgment day for Donald Trump,” R. Nicholas Burns, a former ambassador to NATO and an undersecretary of state under President George W. Bush, wrote on Twitter. Referring to President Vladimir Putin of Russia, he added: “Will he support Britain unequivocally on the nerve agent attack? Back #NATOÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
In response, many up-and-coming midcareer diplomats were fired or quit, causing R. Nicholas Burns, a former senior State Department official now at Harvard, and another diplomat, Ryan C. Crocker, to warn of the “dismantling of the foreign service,” which is facing “its greatest crisis” at a time “when weÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
“Judgment day for Donald Trump,” R. Nicholas Burns, a former ambassador to NATO and an under secretary of state under President George W. Bush, wrote on Twitter. “Will he support Britain unequivocally on the nerve agent attack? Back #NATO sanctions? Finally criticize Putin? Act like a leader of theÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
“You can imagine how people lower down feel,” said R. Nicholas Burns, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and a former diplomat who worked for presidents of both parties. “They don't know what is going to happen from one day to the next. They don't know if their boss is going to be fired or not.
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