And the National Security Council, the White House office that co-ordinates foreign policy, is about as "in" as it gets.
The government is dithering over whether to renew the mandate of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, a body set up after the earthquake to co-ordinate foreign aid.
Will we join forces with the US to confront Russian dominance of the gas market, through anti-competition measures and co-ordinated foreign policy?
His eloquent and well-informed maiden speech on the need to refurbish the alliance with the US in order better to co-ordinate foreign policy on issues other than their joint stand on the cold war was widely applauded.
Even countries once far from the American orbit, like Vietnam and India, are being driven closer to it by China's aggressive assertion of territorial claims.Some of China's apparently inept diplomacy may be a result of poorly co-ordinated foreign policy.
Mr Prodi has made it clear to his incoming commissioners that he expects at least half of each of their cabinets, and either its chef or his deputy, to come from "other" countries: Mr Prodi has an Irish éminence grise; Chris Patten, the Briton entrusted with co-ordinating foreign policy, will have a Frenchman, and so on.
"When the Chinese government lacks direct control over the means of news dissemination or the technical capacity to block content, economic "carrots and sticks" have helped co-opt foreign companies into hindering Chinese audiences' access to the outlets' content.
There has been no official confirmation from Kurdish forces of the 36-year-old's death, but NBC News reported that Idris Nassan, Kurdish co-deputy foreign minister of the Kobani district, said an American who had joined Kurdish fighters had died in battle.
As shown in Figure 4C, assembly of co-transfected foreign proteins into bona fide pseudoparticles was tested by the presence of the HIV p24 protein of the lentiviral vector backbone in the same samples.
The discovery of gene conversion between co-resident foreign and native mitochondrial copies suggests that transferred genes may be evolutionarily important in generating mitochondrial genetic diversity.
