Since the end ofWorld War II, the U.S. foreign policy apparatus has greatly expanded, and its principal body is the State Department. The United States maintains diplomatic relations with some 180 countries worldwide as well as ties to many international organizations, and most of this diplomati...
"Europe's got to remember why we have been on this 70-year journey," Kerry said at the World Economic Forum(WEF) here, referring to the long period of peace that has held throughout most of the continent since the end of World War II. He celebrated the historic effort, saying: "On ...
This file photo taken on Oct. 24, 2023 shows former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (C) speaking at the annual Gala Dinner of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York, the United States. Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at home in Connecticut at the age of ...
Stimson was admitted to the New York bar in 1891, and he served as U.S. attorney for the southern district of the state in 1906–09. He was secretary ofwarin the Cabinet of Pres.William Howard Taftin 1911–13, and he fought briefly in France as afield artilleryofficer during World W...
Read about John Quincy Adams: Secretary of State. Learn about his contributions before the presidency, such as the Adams-Onis Treaty and the Monroe...
Edmund Muskie was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Maine (1955–59), U.S. senator (1959–80), and secretary of state (1980–81) in the cabinet of Pres. Jimmy Carter. After graduating cum laude from Bates College in 1936 and fro
Background In December 2014, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton provided the Department with emails that were sent or received by her while she was Secretary of State. The controversy behind this collection, was that they were sent to/from
Sponsored:[Declassified] World War II Genius CURED Cancer? “There’s not enough money in the world for us to buy back our credibility on human rights if we do not move forward and take swift action,” Rubio said. “Arms sales are important not because of the money but because it also...
Colin Powell, the trailblazing soldier, and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stained by his faulty claims to justify the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq, died Monday of COVID-19 complications. He was 84. Powell will be rememb...
(CNN) --Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state and who helped steer Western foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War, has died. She was 84 years old. The cause was cancer, Albright's family said in a statement Wednesday. ...