This means that Petraeus is now a key figure for the transformation of the Bush foreign policy and national security strategy into whatever it becomes under the next president, whoever he or she may be.
In the discussion, a novel idea is emerging: that sustainable development at home is a critical dimension of America's foreign policy and national security strategy.
A former international businessman, he has served as a communications advisor to several Fortune 100 companies and brings a global business perspective to his work in U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy.
Approving the national security strategy made Japan's foreign and security policy "clear and transparent - for both the Japanese people and all the world to see", he said.
At the end of June the EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, will outline a "global strategy on foreign and security policy".
Addressing the direct and indirect security effects of climate change will be an important part of the new EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy to be presented to the European Council next June.
Her proposals reflect ideas that were outlined in a document titled Shared vision, common action: a stronger Europe - a global strategy for the European Union's foreign And security policy, which was published a few days after the EU referendum.
Mr Hain described calls for common foreign and security policies as a fantasy, pointing out that embarking on such a strategy without Britain would be pointless, since it has the biggest army in the EU.
It was recently exemplified in a woefully unrealistic chess paper on strategy towards Russia prepared for Federica Mogherini, the EU's new high representative for foreign and security policy.
Foreign-policy conundrums such as Bosnia have found Europe's common foreign and security policy wanting.
