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The Diplomacy Imperative: A Q&A with William J. Burns
Ambassador William J. Burns retired in after a year diplomatic career with the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service. He became Deputy sekreterare of State in July , only the second serving career diplomat in history to do so. From to , he served as under sekreterare of State for political affairs. He was ambassador to Russia from until , assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs from until and ambassador to Jordan from until
He has served in a number of other posts since entering the utländsk Service in executive sekreterare of the State Department and special assistant to Secretaries Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright; minister-counselor for political affairs at the U.S. embassy in Moscow; acting director and principal deputy director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff; and special assistant to the president and senior director for nära East and South Asian a • The Hon. William J. "Bill" Burns served as the 8th director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was officially sworn in on March 19, , making him the first career diplomat to serve as Director. Amb. Burns holds the highest rank in the Foreign Service—Career Ambassador—and is only the second serving career diplomat in history to become Deputy Secretary of State. Amb. Burns retired from the State Department U.S. Foreign Service in before becoming president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a crisis-tested public servant who spent his year diplomatic career working to keep Americans safe and secure. Prior to his tenure as Deputy Secretary of State, he served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from to ; U.S. Ambassador to Russia from to ; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from to ; and U.S. Ambassador to Jordan from to Amb. Burns was also Executive Secretary of the State Department and Spec • William Burns spent thirty-three years in the US Foreign Service, retiring as a career ambassador after a stint as Deputy Secretary of State from to , and as he writes in his important new volume, The Back Channel, he’s seen history being made: Long before Trump’s election, my diplomatic apprenticeship exposed me to the best - and worst - of American statecraft and its practitioners, from the early rituals of my first overseas tour to a junior role in a Reagan White House recovering from the self-inflicted wound of the Iran-Contra affair. I saw adept American diplomacy under Bush and Baker and marveled at the skill with which they harnessed America’s extraordinary leverage to shape a post-Cold War order. In Boris Yeltsin’s Russia, I learned the limits of American agency when it is arrayed against the powerful forces of history. As ambassador in Jordan, I was reminded that American leadership could make a profound difference, especially to The Hon. William J. Burns
The Back Channel by William J. Burns