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Joseph Simpson Farland (August 11, 1914 – January 28, 2007) served as United States Ambassador to four countries. [1]Farland was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia and raised in that city as well as in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
William Brockenbrough Taylor Jr. (born September 14, 1947) is an American diplomat, government official, and former military officer. He served as the 6th United States ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and as chargé d’affaires to Ukraine from June 2019 to January 2020 under President Donald Trump.
Realpolitik (/ r eɪ ˈ ɑː l p ɒ l ɪ ˌ t iː k / ray-AHL-po-lih-teek German: [ʁeˈaːlpoliˌtiːk] ⓘ; from German real 'realistic, practical, actual' and Politik 'politics') is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises.
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1912–25 – Nicaragua; America controls Nicaraguan affairs through control of tariff revenues under the Bryan–Chamorro Treaty. 1912–41 – China. US forces sent to protect American interests in China during chaotic revolution. In 1927, America had 5,670 troops ashore in China (mostly Marines) and 44 small naval vessels in its rivers.
Roosevelt gave strong support to the reforms proposed by Secretary of War Elihu Root, who wanted a uniformed chief of staff as general manager and a European-style general staff for planning. Overcoming opposition from General Nelson A. Miles , the Commanding General of the United States Army , Root succeeded in enlarging West Point and ...
A major character death at the end of "The Diplomat" season two throws a wrench into the series. Keri Russell's titular diplomat, Kate Wyler, now faces a more challenging path to the vice presidency.
After the novel's initial publication in the UK by The Bodley Head, the novel was reprinted as follows: Little, Brown, USA, 1950 [4]; The novel was also translated into German, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Hebrew and Bulgarian in 1951, Dutch, Slovak, Russian, and Flemish in 1952, Polish and Chinese in 1953, Albanian in 1965, Slovak in 1978, Estonian in 1979, Hungarian and Azerbaijani in 1981 ...