Anthony Clark Arend

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

March 11, 2010

Every year, the Secretary of State hosts a briefing like this one. And while in that sense it may seem routine, this event is extraordinary because of its connection to who we are as a country and to the universal aspirations we seek to make real through our foreign policy.
The idea of human …

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Fresh from my visit at Yahoo! this past Tuesday, I wanted to post on some more great Yahoo! news. From the Yahoo! Business and Human Rights Program Blog:
The Global Network Initiative (GNI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Morgan as its first Executive Director. As Executive Director, Ms. Morgan will be responsible for continuing to make GNI a …

It was my great pleasure today to visit the Yahoo! Campus in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo! has an extremely active Business and Human Rights Program that supports a wide-variety of specific initiatives. In 2007, Yahoo! made a very generous contribution to Georgetown University to establish the Yahoo! International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet Fellowship Fund. This Fund supports the work …

My wife Tracy and I are excited to be in San Francisco again! Tomorrow night I will be giving a talk for the Georgetown University Alumni Club of Northern California entitled “Terrorists: Criminals or Combatants?” I will post comments about the evening.

As numerous posts have noted, Erin Conaton’s nomination to be Under Secretary of the Air Force had been “on hold” for some time. Yesterday, the Senate finally confirmed her. The Air Force Times reports:
The Air Force has a No. 2 civilian leader for the first time since August 2007.
The Senate confirmed Erin Conaton as undersecretary of the Air Force on …

Over at The Vreelander, my great friend and Georgetown colleague, Professor James Raymond Vreeland, calls upon the Obama Administration to fight against protectionist impulses in the United States. He posts:
Congress is flirting with “Buy America” again, “complaining that money is going to projects that are creating jobs in foreign countries.” They’re pointing to the “Buy America” provisions in the 2009 …

The Huffington Post is reporting today:
In a potential reversal, White House advisers are close to recommending that President Barack Obama opt for military tribunals for self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his alleged henchman, senior officials said.The review of where and how to hold a Sept. 11 trial is not over, so no recommendation is yet …

Over at The Monkey Cage, my friend and Georgetown colleague, Erik Voeten, posts:

I wrote the previous post on UN peacekeeping as this was something I used to track closely but haven’t followed in the past five years. I was struck by the numbers as I gathered some graphs for teaching the other day. Holger Schmidt, who knows much more about …