Foreign Policy

VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT: President Obama Speaks On Drones, Guantanamo

KUNC Staff — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:48:28 +0000

President Obama spoke from the National Defense University in Washington D.C. Thursday on counter-terrorism, drones, and Guantanamo.

Is The United States A 'Dispensable Nation'?

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:53:00 +0000

In The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy In Retreat, former State Department adviser Vali Nasr describes veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke being all but frozen out by President Obama's inner circle, for whom Nasr believes diplomacy was a "lost art."

Instead of engaging civilians to find political solutions in Afghanistan and beyond, they would look first to the military and intelligence agencies for solutions that were politically popular — that includes getting U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.

Nasr speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about how the U.S.

New Documents Provide Insight Into Relationship Of Presidents Clinton, Nixon

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:07:00 +0000

Toward the end of his life, President Richard Nixon found some redemption by secretly advising President Bill Clinton on foreign issues.

New declassified documents, on display at the Nixon Library, released by the Clinton Library and obtained by the Associated Press, show that Nixon sent Clinton a letter after he won the presidency.

"The strongest steel must pass through the hottest fire," Nixon wrote, according to the AP.

Inauguration Day Update: Foreign Policy, Defense

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:36:00 +0000

Transcript

RENEE MONTAGE, HOST:

And let's rejoin Steve, now, over at the Capitol.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Yeah. And let's bring one more voice into the conversation, here. Michele Flournoy is a former undersecretary of defense for policy in the Obama administration, was mentioned at one time as a possible secretary of defense in a second term. Ms. Flournoy, where are you this morning?

MICHELE FLOURNOY: We are on our way from Bethesda, downtown.

INSKEEP: OK. Well, good luck with the traffic. There are a couple of people who got here ahead of you.

In 2nd Term, Obama To Pivot To Asia

Julie McCarthy — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:41:00 +0000

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

The president of the United States, as his title suggests, is the leader of this country, but in many ways is also the leader of the world. And so we're looking at how other countries see the next four years on this Inauguration Day.