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March 16, 2005
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Introducing two new papers from International Relations Center (IRC)
formerly
the Interhemispheric Resource Center
Bush's PR Person to Direct U.S. Public Diplomacy
By Jim Lobe
The most intriguing aspect of U.S. President George W. Bush's nomination of
Karen Hughes to take charge of Washington's public diplomacy apparatus--and
particularly outreach to the Islamic world--is the building out of which she
will be working.
The decision to put Hughes, who, along with Karl Rove, has been Bush's closest
political adviser since he first ran for Texas governor in the early 1990s,
under Condoleezza Rice at the State Department took insiders by surprise.
It suggested that Rice is building a major power center at Foggy Bottom, one
that is capable of ensuring that she can penetrate the circle of foreign
policy
hardliners led by Vice President Dick Cheney and bolstered by national
security
adviser Stephen Hadley, and his deputy, J.D. Crouch, any time she wants.
See complete new IRC paper online at:
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2005/0503hughes.php
With printer-friendly PDF version at:
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/pdf/0503hughes.pdf
Full-Throttle Unipolarity
By Jim Lobe
While Bolton's nomination was the immediate cause of the reassessment that
is now taking place, there have been other signs that the balance of power
within the administration has indeed shifted strongly toward the hawks.
Perhaps the most important was the little-noted appointment of J.D. Crouch
as the deputy national security adviser under Rice's former deputy, Stephen
Hadley. While Hadley's foreign policy views were seen as a mixture of realism
and Cheney's aggressive nationalism, Crouch, who served most recently as
ambassador
to Romania, is regarded as a right-wing extremist on both domestic and foreign
policy issues.
Jim Lobe is a regular contributor to the Right Web program of the
International
Relations Center (IRC), www.irc-online.org. He is the Washington correspondent
for Inter Press Service.
See complete new IRC paper online at:
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2005/0503throttle.php
With printer-friendly PDF version at:
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/pdf/0503throttle.pdf
For related material, see profiles on people mentioned in these articles:
Condoleezza Rice: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/rice/rice.php
Dick Cheney: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/cheney_r/cheney_r.php
Stephen Hadley: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/hadley/hadley.php
Donald Rumsfeld: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/rumsfeld/rumsfeld.php
John Bolton: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/bolton/bolton.php
Robert Zoellick: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/zoellick/zoellick.php
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