Speeches

It's 9/11  Hello, darkness, my old friend.  America has done it once again.  We have waged a failed war in yet another foreign land and dishonorably abandoned those we went there to help. 

I’ve been asked to review Sino-American relations in light of decades of changes in the international order, and to do so in about five minutes.  I wish I could call on the Reduced Shakespeare Company for help.  But here goes!

Fifty-three years ago, as a young foreign service officer, I helped ensure that Taipei rather than Beijing continued to represent China in the United Nations Security Council and elsewhere internationally.  Since then, I have seen relations between China a

Ladies and gentlemen, I congratulate all of you on your participation in Saudi Aramco’s management development seminar.  Your selection marks you as future leaders of your country’s premier institution.  As such, some of you will become important actors on

I have spent much of the past fifty years trying to help the United States benefit from a sound, mutually advantageous relationship with China.  I wish both countries well, but I confess I remain primarily concerned about my own country and its future.  The sharp deterioration in Sino-American re

The United States has responded to the rapid growth in Chinese wealth and power by doubling down on efforts to sustain American primacy in the Indo-Pacific.  The unstated presuppositions driving this American response are that:

I have been working on the development of diplomatic doctrine, something we will need when we rebuild America’s atrophied diplomatic capabilities and competencies.  My topic today is the taxonomy of relations between states and the varieties of strategy they have available to them.