A glimpse of Kim Jong-un's foreign policy posture could come next week, when U.S. and North Korean envoys meet for talks in Beijing.
The most dangerous continuity between the Bush and Obama presidencies, perhaps, is their shared unwillingness to level with the country about what our current foreign policy posture costs, and how it fits into our broader fiscal liabilities.
It wasn't an isolated blunder; it marked the moment when the wider population became fully aware of a new foreign policy posture, developed in Washington, enabled and encouraged by Blair himself.
The fact that the Obama administration has not only stayed largely silent on the war but actively supported it behind the scenes should be one of the true scandals of its foreign policy posture toward the Middle East, yet you can bet the vast majority of Americans have no idea it's happening.
Ethiopia's post 1991 international foreign policy postures came at a time when Beijing was reeling under the Western criticisms of its human rights record such as those in reference to the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
"And, importantly, we do so without compromise, because on many of these issues, we actually agree with each other's policy postures".
"Raising concerns about drug trafficking and human rights is consistent with the administration's policy posture," says Michael McCarthy, an expert on Venezuela who lectures at Johns Hopkins.
He said it was "highly unlikely" that the demands — which essentially call on Qatar to end its independent foreign policy posture in deference its neighboring countries — would be met in full.
McCain gets to look tough with a new Cold War to fight while Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, scrambling to make sense of a more measured foreign policy posture, will seem weak in comparison.
No, the more helpful public policy posture is for American leaders to assure our Japanese friends that the U.S.-Japan relationship is a solid one and that any aggressive impulses by Japan's neighbors like China and North Korea will be met with a forceful and decisive response from the United States.
