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The Express Tribune
January 18, 2018
This is acknowledged by informed Americans such as the late Richard Holbrooke and more recently Richard Olson, both of whom served as special representatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan. While Trump's generals claim to accept the need for an eventual dialogue with the Taliban, they want to firstÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 17, 2018
At the very highest levels, the military got that and so did some at State — Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, General David Petraeus, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and Special Representative Richard Holbrooke to name four. So did the Afghan government, and it still does: Ask President Ashraf Ghani ifÃÂ ...
WDTN
January 16, 2018
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – More than 40 local employers will be in attendance at the Military Veterans Resource Center's job fair. This information comes from our partners at the Huber Heights Courier. The military career fair will take place at the Hope Hotel and Richard C Holbrooke Conference CenterÃÂ ...
Carnegie Europe
January 8, 2018
Back then, a concerted transatlantic effort—enlisting the acquiescence, if not support, of an enfeebled Russia—led both a military campaign and a diplomatic impetus “to end a war” (in the terms of US lead-negotiator Richard Holbrooke's famous account of his task). Today, the challenge is not war, butÃÂ ...
WYSO
January 8, 2018
... 2017 at the Schuster Center. In this special presentation of the award ceremony, you'll hear authors who have been honored for advancing peace through literature including Patricia Engel, David Woods and Colm Toibin - winner of the 2017 Richard Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement.
Vanity Fair
October 30, 2015
More than 40 years ago, when David Holbrooke was a boy, his father, Richard Holbrooke, would sometimes drop him and his younger brother, Anthony, off—uninvited and unannounced—at the home of a family friend on Saturday mornings, just to be free of them for the day. Even then, Richard Holbrooke'sÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 23, 2015
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2010, Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, began recording a secret audio diary, detailing his frustrations with a White House that he believed was too willing to listen to the military and too often mistookÃÂ ...
Toledo Blade
December 31, 1999
President Barrack Obama wanted his special envoy Richard Holbrooke to tackle the issue. However, in response to vigorous protests by India, Kashmir was taken off Holbrooke's mission. When the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the U.S. and European countries were caught by surprise.
Latin Times
December 5, 2017
You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.”—Richard Holbrooke. “Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved?
Fairborn Daily Herald
December 4, 2017
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The Retiree Activities office of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base hosted its annual Wright-Patterson Retiree Appreciation Day recently at the Richard C. Holbrooke Conference Center. The free event was open to all military retirees, spouses, widows and widowers ...
Toledo Blade
December 4, 2017
The war was brought to an end by negotiations conducted by American diplomat Richard Holbrooke in an agreement called the Dayton Accords, based on the talks having been held in an Air Force base near Dayton. The parties involved included Alija Izetbegovic on the Muslim side, Slobodan Milosevic ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 25, 2017
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia sentenced Bosnian Serb army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The judgment was appropriate. It could be another step toward healing that ...
WLWT Cincinnati
November 22, 2017
The late Bosnia peace negotiator Richard Holbrooke once described Mladic as "one of those lethal combinations that history thrusts up occasionally -- a charismatic murderer." Mladic faced charges over his actions during the siege of Sarajevo where his heavily armed forces cut the city off from the outside ...
HuffPost
November 17, 2017
On Saturday a U.N. Security Council delegation led by U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was scheduled to make a detour from a crisis ...
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier
November 3, 2017
In dividing Bosnia between Croatia and Serbia, Richard Holbrooke made sure the Serbs got it. He had the three American diplomats locked in ...
Politico
October 27, 2017
... to the late Richard Holbrooke, the veteran diplomat who, until his death in 2010, was President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan ...
Dhaka Tribune
October 26, 2017
During the first hearing at the tribunal, he stated that he had made a deal with US diplomat, Richard Holbrooke, which was why it took 13 years ...
POLITICO.eu
October 24, 2017
Drozdiak is a lifelong Atlanticist steeped in the late Richard Holbrooke's vision of the U.S. as a benevolent, hands-on European power.
Haaretz
December 12, 2016
On December 13, 2010, Richard Holbrooke, one of America's most accomplished yet most undiplomatic of diplomats, died. His death was caused by a tear in his aorta, a cardiac event that occurred during a December 10 meeting with his boss, Hillary Clinton, at the State Department. Though he underwent ...
Vanity Fair
October 30, 2015
More than 40 years ago, when David Holbrooke was a boy, his father, Richard Holbrooke, would sometimes drop him and his younger brother, ...
New York Times
April 23, 2015
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2010, Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and ...
Irish Times
December 31, 1999
The late Richard Holbrooke, who also served as a diplomat in the Obama administration, brokered a meeting between the women as a ...
YourStory.com
December 31, 1999
Before engaging in a negotiation, it is important to understand some of the common cognitive biases that could affect you and the opposite ...
The Copenhagen Post
December 31, 1999
In 'The Rise of Illiberal Democracy', journalist Fareed Zachariah ponders the dilemma expressed by American diplomat Richard Holbrooke ...
Baltic Review
December 31, 1999
Drozdiak is a lifelong Atlanticist steeped in the late Richard Holbrooke's vision of the U.S. as a benevolent, hands-on European power.
Daily Pakistan
December 31, 1999
The post lost much of its prestige after Obama's point man in the volatile region Ambassador Richard Holbrooke who first held the job died in ...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
... the wake of a troop surge in the Afghan war, with Richard Holbrooke appointed to lead U.S. policy in the volatile Afghan-Pakistan war zone.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 24, 2017
The special office on Afghanistan and Pakistan once headed by the formidable Richard Holbrooke has been shut down. Mr. Trump made aÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
August 21, 2017
The US State Department has dismissed Serbian claims that the late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke wrote to Milosevic, pledging thatÃÂ ...
TownandCountrymag.com (blog)
August 16, 2017
Richard Holbrooke once said that diplomacy is like jazz, “a constant improvisation on a theme.” But it's hard to make music, or navigateÃÂ ...
B92
August 15, 2017
Dacic then pointed out to another missing document - late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke's letter allegedly sent to late Serbian and YugoslavÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
August 5, 2017
I ask the question with regret. Before this year, Tillerson had a long and distinguished career as chief executive of one of the world's mostÃÂ ...
The American Interest
August 2, 2017
Richard Holbrooke, appointed by then-President Obama as Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was tasked with initiatingÃÂ ...
The American Interest
August 1, 2017
Richard Holbrooke, appointed by then-President Obama as Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was tasked with initiatingÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
July 21, 2017
“This time they're pretty deadly serious,” said Jan Techau, director of the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum at the American Academy in Berlin.
Bismarck Tribune
July 20, 2017
... and, of course, the inevitable special representatives such as the late Richard Holbrooke, whose genius and energy was wasted by Obama.
New York Times
July 20, 2017
... to Germany, one of America's most important European allies, has for years been filled by career diplomats, such as Richard C. Holbrooke.
Vogue.com
July 18, 2017
She had asked to meet my late husband, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who had recently negotiated an end to the terrible Balkan Wars.
WCBE 90.5 FM
July 14, 2017
Dayton Literary Peace Prize organizers say Colm Toibin will receive this year's Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award,ÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
July 13, 2017
... for the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. It's named for the late U.S. diplomat who brokered the 1995 Bosnia peaceÃÂ ...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
During the Dayton Peace Conference in 1995, US peace negotiator Richard Holbrooke, while poring over a virtual map of Bosnia, looked upÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
“In 1995 I went over with Richard Holbrooke to begin negotiations with Serbian President Milosevic, and other Balkan leaders, about BillÃÂ ...
RT
December 31, 1999
You might remember Richard Holbrooke? In the 1990's, as US ambassador to Germany, he played a prominent role in the Yugoslav conflictÃÂ ...
MINA
December 31, 1999
In fact, US diplomat Richard Holbrooke recalled in his memoirs (To End A War, first published in 1998) how he and his colleagues wouldÃÂ ...
Carnegie Europe
March 22, 2017
Jan TechauDirector of the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum for the Study of Diplomacy and Governance at the American Academy in Berlin.
SVA Features
March 22, 2017
... the James Weldon Johnson Award for Journalism, the University of Missouri School of Journalism Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism, the Women's Sports Journalism Award and the 2015 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement AwardÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
March 21, 2017
Techau, the director of the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum at the American Academy in Berlin, complains that in Germany the "neurotic striving to remain morally clean" permeates almost every domestic and foreign policy debate.
Jamaica Observer
March 21, 2017
1999: US envoy Richard Holbrooke meets with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in a last-ditch attempt to gain concessions on Kosovo, while Yugoslav police and army troops burn villages in the rebel province.
The Daily Tribune
March 18, 2017
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Obama's first special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was fond of saying that General David Petraeus, then the International Security Assistance Force commander in Afghanistan, was his "military wingman.
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